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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.

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.

Philip Larkin
Poetry, Emotion, Ends
BBC Third Programme, April 13, 1956.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Philip Larkin
People, Poetry, About Yourself
"Required Writing". Book by Philip Larkin, 1983.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin
Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation
Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

Philip Larkin
Past, Poetry, Criticism

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