“Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.”

—  Martin Amis

"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)

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