It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to … - Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

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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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