All Philip Larkin Quotes
- The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is… Afresh
- 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… Days
- Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. Daffodil
- As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or… Allusion
- 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 Begin
- Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself Novel
- Nothing significant was reallysaid, Though all agreed the talk superb.... Agreed
- But to wish is first to think, And to think is to be dumb, And barren of a word to drop That to a milder… Ahead
- And I her son, though summer-born And summer-loving, none the less Am easier when the leaves aregone... Aregone
- Whether they forget What they wanted first or not They tarnish at quiet anchor. Anchor
- In fact, may you be dull If that is what a skilled, Vigilant, flexible, Unemphasised, enthralled Catching of happiness is called. Called
- The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves hold prayers and proofs: Above, Chaldean constellations Sparkle over crowded roofs. Bells
- Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and… Age
- And this must be the prime oflife . . . I blink, As if at pain; for it is pain, to think This pantomime Of… Ablest
- Her hands intend no harm: Her hands devote themselves To sheltering a flame.... Devote
- What you did, any of us might. And saying so I see our difference: Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit tight), But fancying… Any
- For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings Life is slow dying. Among