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Philip Larkin Quotes about Age

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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin
Age, Three, Should

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin
Attitude, Age, Finals

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

Philip Larkin
Fear, Boredom, Age
'Dockery & Son' (1964)

They say eyes clear with age.

Philip Larkin
Eye, Age, Clear
Philip Larkin, “Long Sight In Age”

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