Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Thought for the day ...

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
- Philip Larkin, born on this in 1922

2 comments:

  1. going round explaining how you sleep with your wife

    Well, a lot of people seem to be doing that as well these days.

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  2. Yes, that is so, isn't it, Lee? How innocent Larkin's world was!

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