Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death … - Philip Larkin

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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

Philip Larkin

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

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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

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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

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