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I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now. — Joan Larkin

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. — Philip Larkin

He sighed and said, "Is this the part where I have to tell you how my plan played out? This isn't Scooby Doo. — Gillian Larkin

Any memory for the most part depending on chance. — Philip Larkin

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free. — James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. — James Larkin

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. — James Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do. — Philip Larkin

books are a load of crap — Philip Larkin

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere. — Philip Larkin

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train. — Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin — 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.' — Philip Larkin

What will survive of us is love. — Philip Larkin

But superstition, like belief, must die ... — Philip Larkin

No one can tear your thread out of himself.
No one can tie you down or set you free. — Philip Larkin

The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough ... — Philip Larkin

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. — Domhnall Gleeson

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. — Philip Larkin

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. — Philip Larkin

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves. — Philip Larkin

I have wished you something
None of the others would ... — Philip Larkin

Clearly money has something to do with life ... — Philip Larkin

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap. — Philip Larkin

Life is slow dying. — Philip Larkin

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else, — Philip Larkin

I'd like to think ... that people in pubs would talk about my poems — Philip Larkin

It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell

They both rise / Make for the Coke dispenser. 'What's he like? / Christ, I just told you. — Philip Larkin

Ought we to smile / Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats / You're best alone. Friendship is not worth while. — Philip Larkin

Parents fuck you up. They don't mean to but they do. — Philip Larkin

What will survive of us is love.

- from A Writer — Philip Larkin

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. — Robert Morgan

...the breath that sharpens life is life itself... — Philip Larkin

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community. — Joan Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear, — Philip Larkin

Most things may never happen: this one will. — Philip Larkin

Comrades - We are living in momentous times. — James Larkin

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. — Philip Larkin

I've always liked New York, always liked the city. — Shane Larkin

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence. — 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

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us. — John Larkin

Here is an unfenced existance — Philip Larkin

But O, Photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! — Philip Larkin

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like. — Philip Larkin

A good poem about failure is a success. — Philip Larkin

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober. — Philip Larkin

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted — Philip Larkin

Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead. — Joan Larkin

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. — Philip Larkin

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland. — James Larkin

You can't put off being young until you retire. — Philip Larkin

I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting. — Barry Larkin

I wonder love can have already set
In dreams, when we've not met
More times than I can number on one hand. — Philip Larkin

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people. — James Larkin

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods. — James Larkin

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 — Philip Larkin

So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed. — Alison Larkin

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb. — L.A. Larkin

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed. — Philip Larkin

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men. — James Larkin

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 — Philip Larkin

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years. — James Larkin

Living toys are something novel,
But it soon wears off somehow. — Philip Larkin

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. — Philip Larkin

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. — Philip Larkin

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to. — Joan Larkin

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day. — Philip Larkin

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. — James Larkin

Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation. — Philip Larkin

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. — Barry Larkin

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? — Philip Larkin

I am awakened each dawn
Increasingly to fear ... — Philip Larkin

I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others. — Barry Larkin

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. — Philip Larkin

Joy
Is for the simple or the great to feel,
Neither of which we are. — Philip Larkin

Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock ... — Philip Larkin

Still, vicious or virtuous,
Love suits most of us. — Philip Larkin

A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself. — Philip Larkin

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

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. — Philip Larkin

Anger is poison. Maybe — Matt Larkin

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. — James Larkin

Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me. — Franny Billingsley

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things. — James Larkin

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. — Philip Larkin

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin. — Shane Larkin

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now! — Alan Bennett

The elder Miss Larkin — Charles Dickens

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin

I wanted to go to college and play football. — Barry Larkin

For years and years I have done the work I was born for. — James Larkin

My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud. — Philip Larkin

Originality is being different from oneself, not others. — Philip Larkin