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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
Philip Larkin
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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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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England
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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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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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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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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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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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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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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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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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