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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

Kind, Difficult, Stills

Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.88, Faber & Faber

Walk with the dead For fear of death.

Death, Fear Of Death, Walks

Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Faber & Faber

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Meals, Eating, Good Meals

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

Home, Existence, Elsewhere

Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Memories, Chance

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

Thinking, Scene, Individual

Philip Larkin (2013). “Further Requirements”, p.49, Faber & Faber

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

Distance, Clouds, White

Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

Years, Aging, Century

Philip Larkin, “I Have Started To Say”

Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.

Simple, Joy, Feels