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Philip Larkin
What are days...
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be...
Deprivation is for...
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Source: Interview in The...
Far too many...
Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Life has a...
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Source: In The Harper Book...
I can't understand...
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going...
Get stewed:<br>Books are...
Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
Source: A Study of Reading Habits.
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You have to...
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen...
I think writing...
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any after all, most people are...
You can't put...
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Source: In The Harper Book of...
Perhaps being old...
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet...