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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin's Popular Quotes

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

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A good poem about failure is a success.

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What will survive of us is love.

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What are days for? Days are where we live.

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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

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Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

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Here is an unfenced existance

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