Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
Philip Larkin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sense
Love
Life
Sleeps
According
Lived
Sleep
Everyone
More quotes by Philip Larkin
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
Philip Larkin
Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
Philip Larkin
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
Philip Larkin
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin
We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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
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
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
Philip Larkin
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip Larkin
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
Philip Larkin
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
Philip Larkin
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
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
Philip Larkin
I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
Philip Larkin
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
Philip Larkin
