Larkin

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    Black flowers burst out wherever the night has knelt.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    And the waves sing because they are moving.
    And the waves sing above a cemetery of waters.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Uncontradicting solitude
    Supports me on its giant palm;
    And like a sea-anemone
    or simple snail, there cautiously
    Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)