Larkin

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    That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
    Created to pretend we never die ...
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Can they never tell
    What is dragging them back, and how it will end? Not at night?
    Not when the strangers come? Never, throughout
    The whole hideous inverted childhood? Well,
    We shall find out.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    But when did love not try to change
    The world back to itself no cost,
    No past, no people else at all
    Only what meeting made us feel,
    So new, and gentle-sharp, and strange?
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)