"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."
— Philip Larkin

January 1, 1970

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Interview with Miriam Gross, "A voice for our time" in The Observer (16 December 1979); republished in Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955–1982 (1983)