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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
Critic
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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