Philip Larkin Quotes About Poetry
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As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.
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Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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