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Philip Larkin

Friday 19th of April 2024

Parents 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, “This Be The Verse” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Religion A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round. Philip Larkin, “Church Going” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie Deprivation is to me what daffodils were to Wordsworth. Philip Larkin © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sex Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterly  ban And the Beatles' first LP. Philip Larkin, “Annus Mirabillis” © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Time This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood. Philip Larkin, XXVI ‘This is the first thing’ © 2016 Kwiple.com