LarkinQuotes

A writer. 'Interesting, but futile'

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‘A photograph of Richard Murphy, Terrible Ted Hughes, new star Douglas Dunn & yours truly. A strange study of contrasting personalities.’

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It's lateish on Sunday evening, and I am collecting myself slowly after a very dispersed weekend

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God, the weather here is frightful. Not only wet - one expects that - but cold.

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Excuse this outpouring. Obviously I ought to live out in the moors somewhere.

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beastly Monday

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Saturday morning
I go for the meat,
Body all aching
Likewise the feet,
Fools at my elbow
Gormlessly greet,
Shopping is hell
In stupidity street.

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Morning has spread again / Through every street, / And we are strange again

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If hands could free you, heart,
Where would you fly?
Far, beyond every part
Of earth this running sky
Makes desolate? Would you cross
City and hill and sea,
If hands could set you free?

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The earth is faint, the air is sick.

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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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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.

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I was glad to get your letter, thinking perhaps you were ill or starving or something.

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In fact life generally is quite unacceptable, though I continue to accept it.

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I refuse to believe that there is a thing called life, that one can be in or out of touch with. There is only an endless series of events, of which our birth is one & our death another.

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Well. I am in my own nook again, my draughty, dingy book-filled flat.

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Gold winter sun

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Isn’t it all hell? Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

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I usually wind up in the Beverley Arms for tea, not because it's good tea but because I never know where else to go.

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Tuesday - is it? No: Wednesday: groogh...

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This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.

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Bright drops of time,
One and two chime