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I have no ideas about poetry at all. For me, a poem is the crossroads of my thoughts, my feelings, my imaginings, my wishes, and my verbal sense: normally these run parallel; often two or more cross; but only when all cross at one point do you get a poem.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman
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A poem is usually a highly professional artificial thing, a verbal device designed to reproduce a thought or emotion indefinitely: it shd have no dead parts, and every word should be completely unchangeable and unmoveable.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a disappointment, but I would sooner write no poems than bad poems.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Philip Larkin
Born:
August 9, 1922
Died:
December 2, 1985
(aged 63)
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