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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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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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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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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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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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