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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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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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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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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 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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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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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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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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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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