Philip Larkin Quote

I am beginning to think of the creative imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940–1985 (1992)

I am beginning to think of the creative imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent...

I am beginning to think of the creative imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent...

I am beginning to think of the creative imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent...

I am beginning to think of the creative imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent...