“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are”

—  Philip Larkin

Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 Farrar Strauss 1984
Context: Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

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English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922–1985

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