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One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys.
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Give me your arm, old toad;
Help me down Cemetery Road.
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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I search myself for illusions like a monkey looking for fleas.
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I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
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The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said.
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- to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water.
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Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are....
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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The headed paper, made for writing home (If home existed) letters of exile.
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Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....
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Living in England has no such excuse:
These are my customs and establishments....
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Poetry = heightened talking. Novel = heightened story. Painting = a heightened seeing.
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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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No one can tear your thread out of himself.
No one can tie you down or set you free.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Marriage, well. I think of it as a marvellous thing for other people, like going to the stake.
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What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?'
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Weeds are not supposed to grow,
But by degrees
Some achieve a flower, although
No one sees.
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I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat.
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We had the old crow over at Hull recently, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island.
Of Ted Hughes
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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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It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,Or not untrue and not unkind.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Walter Bagehot
Philip Larkin
Born:
August 9, 1922
Died:
December 2, 1985
(aged 63)
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