I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a disappointment, but I would sooner write no poems than bad poems.


letter, 11 August 1984; Anthony Thwaite (ed.) Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (1992)

Philip Larkin Quotes

I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a...

I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a...

I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a...

I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing. Naturally this is a...