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Clearly money has something to do with life.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Clearly
Money
Something
Life
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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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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