Philip Larkin on Poetic Aspiration

He has said his aim in writing a poem is “to construct a verbal device that would preserve an experience indefinitely by reproducing it in whoever read the poem.”

“The Art of Poetry No. 30,” Paris Review, Philip Larkin

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