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Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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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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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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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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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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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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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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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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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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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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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 have wished you something None of the others would.
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