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Philip Larkin
(1922 - 1985 / West Midlands / England)
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''I needs must turn
To know what prints I leave, whether of feet,
Or spoor of pads, or a bird's adept splay.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Age."
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''Dying smokers sense
Walking towards them through some dappled park
As if on water that unfocused she
No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near....''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Essential Beauty."
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''Lit shelved liners
Grope like mad worlds westward.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Livings."
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''Walk with the dead
For fear of death.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Pour away that youth."
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''Nor will the love, gay as any leaf,
Assuage his anguish. And the lions laugh.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "There is no language of destruction."
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''My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Age."
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In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shin...
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Essential Beauty."
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''The wine heats temper and complexion:
Oath-enforced assertions fly
On rheumy fevers, resurrection,
Regicide and rabbit pie.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Livings."
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''Therefore I stay outside,
Believing this; and they maul to and fro,
Believing that; and both are satisfied,
If no one has misjudged himself. Or lied.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Reasons for Attendance."
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''And no word can be spoken of which the sense
Does not accuse and contradict at once.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "There is no language of destruction."
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