Friendship Quote by Philip Larkin

““If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye””

Philip Larkin

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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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.

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And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,…

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“Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.”

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“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff Up at the holy end; the small neat organ; And a tense, musty, unignorable silence, Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take…

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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and…

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“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.”

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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we…

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“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.”

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“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens you don't know - on the whole I enjoyed it. But I should like to say something about this 'irrepressible vitality', this 'throwing a fresh handful of characters on the fire when it burns low', in…

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“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way - A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't. So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words…

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