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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

~Philip Larkin

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

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You can't put off being young until you retire.

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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

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They say eyes clear with age.

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

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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.

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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 9th, 1922

Died: December 2nd, 1985

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