All Philip Larkin Quotes
- I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems Inspirational
- What will survive of us is love. Death
- ...the breath that sharpens life is life itself... Breath
- Something, like nothing, happens anywhere. Anywhere
- The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it… Blow
- On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes. Enormous
- Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… Age
- Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. Anemone
- Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. All
- Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them,… Busy
- There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! All
- 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. Art
- Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Age
- Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting… Changed
- How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really. Careers
- I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I… Acts
- I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry… Action
- Originality is being different from oneself, not others. From
- I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt. Always Trying
- Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. Depression
- Here is an unfenced existance Existance
- Most things may never happen: this one will. Funny
- Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin Debating
- I have wished you something None of the others would.... Funny
- Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance… Air