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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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Walk with the dead For fear of death.
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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