That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Be  careful about  the  thoughts. They can  make  you  or  break  you.

I can&#39;t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It&#39;s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don&#39;t you think?

Philip Larkin

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Written By Philip Larkin

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