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Philip Larkin Quotes

Philip Larkin quotes

English Poet August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985

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Philip Larkin quote: "There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse..."
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we..."
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.... Philip Larkin
I really am going to meet Forster: I thought I shouldn't, but apparently the old boy E.M.F. is saying with remembered my name & I am bid to John Hewitt's at 8 tomorrow. Shall I ask him if he's a homo? It's the only thing I really want to know about him, you see. I don't even care why he packed up writing. Philip Larkin
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she..."
Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long. Philip Larkin
And immediately. Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows. Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. Philip Larkin
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. Philip Larkin
Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of 'ideal' poems that one feels ought to be written, but don't because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A 'real' poem is a pleasure to write. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?"
Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father? Philip Larkin
Dear Mr Larkin, I expect you think it's jolly cheeky for a schoolgirl to -Dear Dr Larkin, My freind [sic] and I had an argument as to which of us has the biggest breasts and we wondered if you would act as - My youngest, she's fourteen and quite absurdly stuck on your poems - but then she's advanced in all ways - refuses to wear a - Philip Larkin
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres. Philip Larkin
So many things I had thought forgotten. Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone. Who left the house so many years ago. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Death is no different whined at than withstood."
Death is no different whined at than withstood. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling..."
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. Philip Larkin
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you. Philip Larkin

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