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Philip Larkin Quotes

Philip Larkin quotes about kindness

English Poet August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985

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Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous. Philip Larkin
The trees are coming into leaf. Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again. And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new. Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh. In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling..."
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and..."
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind. Philip Larkin

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