Philip Larkin Quotes
- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell
- Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows… — Alan Bennett
- 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
- I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting… — Damien Hirst
- The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. — Robert Morgan
- Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin — Philip Larkin
- I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. — Domhnall Gleeson
- Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan