Quote

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

Philip Larkin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Ships
Seeking
Silence
Huge
Sailed
Break
Breed
Water
Unfamiliar
Black
Waters
Ship

More quotes by Philip Larkin

Image
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
Philip Larkin
Image
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
Philip Larkin
Image
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
Philip Larkin
Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
Image
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Philip Larkin
Image
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
Philip Larkin
Image
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin
Image
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
Philip Larkin
Image
Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
Philip Larkin
Image
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Philip Larkin
Image
Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
Philip Larkin
Image
You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
Image
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
Philip Larkin
Image
We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
Philip Larkin
Image
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
Image
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
Philip Larkin
Image
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip Larkin
Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
Philip Larkin
Image
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
Philip Larkin