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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Journalist
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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More quotes by Philip Larkin
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
Philip Larkin
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
Philip Larkin
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
Philip Larkin
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
Philip Larkin
Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
Philip Larkin
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
Philip Larkin
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Philip Larkin
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
Philip Larkin
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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.
Philip Larkin
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Philip Larkin
Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
Philip Larkin
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
Philip Larkin
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip Larkin
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
Philip Larkin
We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
Philip Larkin
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
Philip Larkin
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
Philip Larkin
