Philip Larkin Quotes

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, Philip Larkin Picture Quote

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance,

— Philip Larkin

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn… Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn…

— Philip Larkin

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets

— Philip Larkin

I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me.

— Philip Larkin

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

— Philip Larkin

…the breath that sharpens life is life itself… Philip Larkin Picture Quote

…the breath that sharpens life is life itself…

— Philip Larkin

You can look out of your life like a train & see what Philip Larkin Picture Quote

You can look out of your life like a train & see what

— Philip Larkin

I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how

— Philip Larkin

In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.

— Philip Larkin

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we’ve not Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we’ve not

— Philip Larkin

Any memory for the most part depending on chance. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

— Philip Larkin

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

— Philip Larkin

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf.

— Philip Larkin

I’d like to think…that people in pubs would talk about my poems Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I’d like to think…that people in pubs would talk about my poems

— Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The Philip Larkin Picture Quote

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The

— Philip Larkin

… everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

… everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

— Philip Larkin

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

— Philip Larkin

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

— Philip Larkin

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so

— Philip Larkin

What are days for? Days are where we live. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

What are days for? Days are where we live.

— Philip Larkin

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

— Philip Larkin

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the

— Philip Larkin

Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is

— Philip Larkin

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

— Philip Larkin

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her

— Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it,

— Philip Larkin

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond

— Philip Larkin

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

— Philip Larkin

I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off

— Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, ‘Life’s not like that’, he has to Philip Larkin Picture Quote

If you tell a novelist, ‘Life’s not like that’, he has to

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are,

— Philip Larkin

I have started to say “A quarter of a century” Or “thirty years back” About my own life. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I have started to say “A quarter of a century” Or “thirty years back” About my own life.

— Philip Larkin

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at

— Philip Larkin

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the Philip Larkin Picture Quote

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the

— Philip Larkin

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded Philip Larkin Picture Quote

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded

— Philip Larkin

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died. Philip Larkin Picture Quote

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

— Philip Larkin

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was Philip Larkin Picture Quote

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was

— Philip Larkin

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about Philip Larkin Picture Quote

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about

— Philip Larkin

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! Philip Larkin Picture Quote

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!

— Philip Larkin

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