CONTINUING TO LIVE
Continuing to live –that is,
repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries–
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
A habit formed to get necessaries–
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair,
and enterprise–
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it's chess.
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it's chess.
And once you have walked the
length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what's the profit? Only
that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our
death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
PHILIP LARKIN
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