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Philip Arthur Larkin war ein englischer Dichter, Autor und Jazzkritiker. Er arbeitete als Universitätsbibliothekar in Hull. Larkin gilt als einer der bedeutendsten englischen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. August 1922 – 2. Dezember 1985
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“What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?”

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Lines from an early poem, letter to J.B. Sutton, 16 April 1941

“Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.”

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Philip Larkin buch The Whitsun Weddings

"A Study of Reading Habits" (20 August 1960)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“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.”

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Philip Larkin buch The Whitsun Weddings

"MCMXIV"
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love,
Broke out, to show
Its bright incipience sailing above,
Still promising to solve, and satisfy,
And set unchangeably in order. So
To pile them back, to cry,
Was hard, without lamely admitting how
It had not done so then, and could not now.”

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Philip Larkin buch The Whitsun Weddings

"Love Songs in Age" (1 January 1957)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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

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Philip Larkin buch The Less Deceived

Quelle: The Less Deceived (1955), Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album

“And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.”

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Philip Larkin buch The Less Deceived

Coming
The Less Deceived (1955)

“You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.”

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Letter to Monica Jones, 22 October 1967

“If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.”

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Quelle: Letter to J.B.Sutton 30 October 1949

“to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.”

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Letter to Winifred Arnott, 7 October 1953

“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”

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Interview in The Review, published by Ian Hamilton (1972)

“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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Philip Larkin buch High Windows

"This Be The Verse," High Windows (1974) [April ? 1971]
This Be The Verse (1974)

“The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
—The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.”

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Quelle: "Aubade", Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 1977

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