Philip Larkin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.
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
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.
Ought we to smile / Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats / You're best alone. Friendship is not worth while.
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
I wonder love can have already set
In dreams, when we've not met
More times than I can number on one hand.
In dreams, when we've not met
More times than I can number on one hand.
To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.
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?
Give me a thrill, says the reader,
Give me a kick;
I don't care how you succeed, or
What subject you pick.
Give me a kick;
I don't care how you succeed, or
What subject you pick.
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.
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.
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.
They mess you up, your Mom 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
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?
Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.
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')
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long.