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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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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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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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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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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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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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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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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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