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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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Coventry
England
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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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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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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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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