Tuesday, October 10, 2006

News at Eleven: [Philip Larkin] had written no poems

in the previous year. He added: "My mind is like a shallow-soiled garden: nothing takes deep roots in it/I despise my mind, and my character, and my instincts, and everything about me."

from The Sunday Times: Found: lines of self-hate Larkin tried to conceal

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