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Philip Larkin Quotes

Philip Larkin quotes about life

English Poet August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985

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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. Philip Larkin
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it,..."
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. Philip Larkin
he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying. Philip Larkin
...men whose first coronary is coming like Christmas; who drift, loaded helplessly with commitments and obligations and necessary observances, into the darkening avenues of age and incapacity, deserted by everything that once made life sweet. These I have tried to remind of the excitement of jazz and tell where it may still be found. Philip Larkin
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action Philip Larkin
I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation') Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing."
In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know..."
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it."
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "...the breath that sharpens life is life itself..."
...the breath that sharpens life is life itself... Philip Larkin

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