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

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



Philip 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.




Philip 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



Philip 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.




Philip 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.



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

What will survive of us is love.



Philip 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




Philip 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.



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."

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: "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).



Philip 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.



Philip 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.




Philip 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.



Philip 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.



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

A good poem about failure is a success.



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



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

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.



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

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



Philip 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.



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

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.



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

Life is first boredom, then fear.



Philip 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.



Philip 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.'



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



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

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.



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

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



Philip 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?



Philip 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.



Philip 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



Philip 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?



Philip 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.



Philip 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.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "Here is an unfenced existance"

Here is an unfenced existance



Philip Larkin Quotes: "Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth."

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time."

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "Something, like nothing, happens anywhere."

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me."

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!"

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!



Philip Larkin Quotes: "I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems"

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems



Philip Larkin Quotes: "But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards"

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards



Philip Larkin Quotes: "I have wished you something None of the others would."

I have wished you something None of the others would.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick."

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 Quotes: "Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems."

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.



Philip Larkin Quotes: "You can't put off being young until you retire."

You can't put off being young until you retire.