Philip Larkin Quotes

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What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?'

Philip Larkin

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Philip Larkin

We had the old crow over at Hull recently, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island.

Of Ted Hughes

Philip Larkin

I listen to money singing. It's like looking down
From long french windows at a provincial town,
The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad
In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

Philip Larkin

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

Philip Larkin