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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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I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.
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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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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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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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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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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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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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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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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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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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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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