Philip Larkin Quotes

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day. - Philip Larkin

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

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

Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end. - Philip Larkin

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. - Philip Larkin

Death is no different whined at than withstood. - Philip Larkin

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. - Philip Larkin

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