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LA Larkin Quotes: "I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me."

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.



LA Larkin Quotes: "How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really."

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.




LA Larkin Quotes: "Intolerance has been the curse of our country."

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.



LA Larkin Quotes: "When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?"

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?




LA Larkin Quotes: "I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action"

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action



LA Larkin Quotes: "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."

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.



LA Larkin Quotes: "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like."

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.




LA Larkin Quotes: "What will survive of us is love."

What will survive of us is love.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP"

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP



LA Larkin Quotes: "Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about."

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.



LA 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."

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.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Comrades - We are living in momentous times!"

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!




LA Larkin Quotes: "It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young)."

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).



LA Larkin Quotes: "Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance."

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.



LA Larkin Quotes: "One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves."

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire."

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.



LA Larkin Quotes: "When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off."

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.



LA Larkin Quotes: "A good poem about failure is a success."

A good poem about failure is a success.



LA Larkin Quotes: "So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago."

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else."

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end."

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland."

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.



LA Larkin Quotes: "He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day."

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round."

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants."

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Life is first boredom, then fear."

Life is first boredom, then fear.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres."

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.



LA Larkin Quotes: "No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic."

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.



LA Larkin Quotes: "If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'"

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'



LA Larkin Quotes: "This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood."

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt."

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it."

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand."

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife."

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?



LA Larkin Quotes: "To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober."

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.



LA Larkin Quotes: "The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry."

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.



LA Larkin Quotes: "We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral."

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself."

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.



LA Larkin Quotes: "The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph."

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.



LA Larkin Quotes: "The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland"

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland



LA Larkin Quotes: "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"

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



LA Larkin Quotes: "What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?"

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?



LA Larkin Quotes: "Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land."

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.



LA Larkin Quotes: "I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same."

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession."

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.



LA Larkin Quotes: "Here is an unfenced existance"

Here is an unfenced existance



LA Larkin Quotes: "My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there."

My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.



LA Larkin Quotes: "We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration."

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.