Philip Larkin Quotes - Page 1

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Here is an unfenced existance

• Philip Larkin / Poet

They say eyes clear with age.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

What will survive of us is love.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Life is first boredom, then fear.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Walk with the dead For fear of death.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

A good poem about failure is a success.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

But superstition, like belief, must die.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

What are days for? Days are where we live.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Clearly money has something to do with life.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Most things may never happen: this one will.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I have wished you something None of the others would.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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

• Philip Larkin / Poet

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

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