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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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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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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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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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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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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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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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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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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