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Philip Larkin on Poetry

1922–1985 England

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

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself

Required Writing (1983)

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Required Writing (1983)

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

Poetry = heightened talking. Novel = heightened story. Painting = heightened seeing.

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