“These two lines – Larkin’s ‘What will survive of us is love’ and Auden’s ‘We must love one another or die’ – may be the most well-known lines of poetry about love written in the past century. But what’s remarkable about them both is that the poets who wrote them agonized over them, were conflicted and critical of their own lines. Both Larkin and Auden eventually tried to distance themselves from their original unmediated utterances.”