Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

Philip Larkin
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The quote “Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach of shapes and shingle” is a very good one to live by. Lonely places are places where the people are always busy doing something else, while not paying attention to their surroundings.

This quote really applies to the people who live there. Every day they wake up and go about their business without thinking about what is happening around them. A lonely person does not really think about others, only themselves.

If this person does not have anything to do, they are free to think about what will happen in the future. They can dream about what they want to be when they grow up. They can have hopes and aspirations for their life.

This person is always busy doing something so that they are occupied all of the time.

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

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