What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what b… - Philip Larkin

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What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?

Philip Larkin

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Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.

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But, o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! That records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes,
Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.

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What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here? - Philip Larkin

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