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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: "It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and..."
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "They say eyes clear with age."
They say eyes clear with age. Philip Larkin
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other..."
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody..."
Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have,..."
MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows Philip Larkin
Once more. Uncontradicting solitude. Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone. Or simple snail, there cautiously. Unfolds, emerges, what I am. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long..."
It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "books are a load of crap"
books are a load of crap Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Parents fuck you up. They don't mean to but they do."
Parents fuck you up. They don't mean to but they do. Philip Larkin
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs. Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems"
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf...."
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself. Philip Larkin
I would not dare. Console you if I could. What can be said, Except that suffering is exact, but where. Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic? Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "You can't put off being young until you retire."
You can't put off being young until you retire. Philip Larkin

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