Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Quote by Philip Larkin

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

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.

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

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

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

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

What will survive of us is love.

What will survive of us is love.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it...

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it...

They say eyes clear with age.

They say eyes clear with age.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as...

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as...

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems:...

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems:...