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Everyone young going down the long slideTo happiness, endlessly. — Philip Larkin
Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
— Philip Larkin
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
— Philip Larkin
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind. — Philip Larkin
There is bad in all good authors
— Philip Larkin
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
— 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
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
— Philip Larkin
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.
— 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
The difficult part of loveIs being selfish enough ... — Philip Larkin
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.
— Philip Larkin
I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
— Domhnall Gleeson
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
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
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
— Philip Larkin
In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.
— Philip Larkin
Life is slow dying.
— Philip Larkin
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else,
— Philip Larkin
Time is the echo of an axeWithin a wood. — 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
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
— Philip Larkin
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
— Philip Larkin
Things are tougher than we are, justAs earth will always respond
However we mess it about ... — Philip 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
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
— Philip 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
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.
— Philip Larkin
It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about(That is, when you are young) ... — Philip 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
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
— Philip Larkin
Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.
— Philip Larkin
Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?
— Philip Larkin
They say eyes clear with age.
— Philip Larkin
Here is unfenced existence
— Philip 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
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. — Philip Larkin
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
— Philip Larkin
Walk with the deadFor fear of death. — Philip Larkin
I am awakened each dawnIncreasingly to fear ... — Philip Larkin
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
— Philip Larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
— 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
A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.
— Philip Larkin
Still, vicious or virtuous,Love suits most of us. — Philip 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
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
— Philip Larkin
Most things may never happen: this one will.
— Philip Larkin
What will survive of us is love.- from A Writer — Philip Larkin
My age fallen away like white swaddlingFloats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud. — Philip Larkin
Life is first boredom, then fear,
— Philip Larkin
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
— 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
Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long.
— Philip Larkin
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
— Philip Larkin
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
— Philip Larkin
In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.
— Philip Larkin
I wonder love can have already setIn dreams, when we've not met
More times than I can number on one hand. — Philip 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
But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! — Philip Larkin
Here is an unfenced existance
— 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
...the breath that sharpens life is life itself...
— Philip Larkin
You can't put off being young until you retire.
— Philip Larkin
