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Philip Larkin Quotes

Philip Larkin quotes about words

English Poet August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985

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Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he's taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, The drink gone dead, without showing how To meet tomorrow, and afterwards, And the usual pain, like dysentery. Someone else feeling her breasts and cunt, Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare, And me supposed to be ignorant, Or find it funny, or not to care, Even ... but why put it into words? Isolate rather this element That spreads through other lives like a tree And... 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: "If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on..."
If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye Philip Larkin
I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself... 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
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

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