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Famous Philip Larkin Quotes
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”
“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
“Most things may never happen: this one will.”
“I have wished you something None of the others would.”
“Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.”
“And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.”
“Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.”
“To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.”
“Death is no different whined at than withstood.”
“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.”
“The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.”
“This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.”
“It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.”
“Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.”
“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”
“The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.”