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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
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Life
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
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