Quotation by Philip Larkin

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Then is it scentless, weightless, strengthless, wholly
Untruthful? Try whispering it slowly.
No, it means you. Or, since you're past and gone,
It means what we feel now about you then:
How beautiful you were, and near, and young....

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. "Maiden Name."

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