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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 Quotes)
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don’t have any kids yourself. (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Any memory for the most part depending on chance (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Clearly money has something to do with life (Philip Larkin Quotes)
A good poem about failure is a success (Philip Larkin Quotes)
... the breath that sharpens life is life itself (Philip Larkin Quotes)
What will survive of us is love (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Originality is being different from oneself, not others (Philip Larkin Quotes)
I’d like to think... that people in pubs would talk about my poems (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Most things may never happen: this one will (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end (Philip Larkin Quotes)
I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me (Philip Larkin Quotes)
They say eyes clear with age (Philip Larkin Quotes)
You can’t put off being young until you retire (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Death is no different whined at than withstood (Philip Larkin Quotes)
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent and unwanted (Philip Larkin Quotes)
In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love (Philip Larkin Quotes)
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober (Philip Larkin Quotes)
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems (Philip Larkin Quotes)
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits (Philip Larkin Quotes)
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another (Philip Larkin Quotes)
You can look out of your life like a train and see what you’re heading for, but you can’t stop the train (Philip Larkin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don’t have any kids yourself (Philip Larkin Quotes)
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously (Philip Larkin Quotes)
Dear, I can’t write, it’s all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession (Philip Larkin Quotes)