All Philip Larkin Quotes
- 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
- 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