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• They say eyes clear with age.

  Philip Larkin

  Eye, Age, Clear

  Philip Larkin, “Long Sight In Age”

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• Most things may never happen: this one will.

  Philip Larkin

  May, Happens

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Faber & Faber

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• Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

  Philip Larkin

  Men, Feet, Literature

  Letter to J.B.Sutton, December 21, 1942.

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• In times when nothing stood
  but worsened, or grew strange,
  there was one constant good:
  she did not change.

  Philip Larkin

  Strange, Grew, Constant

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

  Philip Larkin

  Majority, Ends, Rejects

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Fantasy, Kind

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• But O, Photography! as no art is,
  Faithful and disappointing!

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• But superstition, like belief, must die.

  Philip Larkin

  Superstitions, Belief, Dies

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

  Philip Larkin

  Fall, Voice, Should

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

  Philip Larkin

  Water, Silence, Black

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.

  Philip Larkin

  Pain, Blow, Moon

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

  Philip Larkin

  Tree, Said, Leafs

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Clearly money has something to do with life.

  Philip Larkin

  Money

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Living in England has no such excuse:
  These are my customs and establishments.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, England, Excuse

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• ... everyone young going down the long slide
  To happiness, endlessly.

  Philip Larkin

  Freedom, Long, Slides

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• Death is no different whined at than withstood.

  Philip Larkin

  Different

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.172, Faber & Faber

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• Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.

  Philip Larkin

  Autumn, Training, Parting

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• Many famous feet have trod
  Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
  The strength they have against the strength they need;
  And famous lips interrogated God
  Concerning franchise in eternity.

  Philip Larkin

  Greatness, Hands, Feet

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• I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Long, Mad

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.279, LUMEN

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• Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

  Philip Larkin

  Weed, Beach, Distance

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
  Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
  The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
  The costly aversion of the eyes from death-
  Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

  Philip Larkin

  Running, Eye, Solitude

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

  Philip Larkin

  Past, Men, Garden

  The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "MCMXIV"

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• My age fallen away like white swaddling
  Floats in the middle distance, becomes
  An inhabited cloud.

  Philip Larkin

  Distance, Clouds, White

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

  Philip Larkin

  Memories, Chance

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