"Depression is to me as daffodils were to…" — Philip Larkin
"Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth."
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92 Quotes by Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin has 92 quotes on this site.
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the…
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because…
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more…
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as…
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and…
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More Daffodil Quotes
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
— Cyril Connolly
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the…
— Unknown Author
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I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married…
— Cassandra Danz
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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found…
— Virginia Woolf
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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
— Kirsty Gallacher
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It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And…
— Clinton Scollard
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April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers…
— Robert Loveman
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
— Marian McPartland
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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have…
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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