"I am beginning to think of the human……" — Philip Larkin
"I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds."
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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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Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.
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When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional…
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I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body…
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