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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

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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Everyone
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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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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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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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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 am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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