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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
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Music Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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