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Philip Larkin

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Where can we live but days?

Philip Larkin

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Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?

Philip Larkin

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Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(Which was rather late for me)—
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.

Philip Larkin

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

Philip Larkin

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If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.

Philip Larkin

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

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