"It becomes still more difficult to find Words……" — Philip Larkin
"It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind."
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Philip Larkin
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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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