Quotes by Philip Larkin

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

#Death

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

#Unhappiness, #Writing

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

#Being Young

They say eyes clear with age.

#Philip Larkin

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

#Philip Larkin

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

#Philip Larkin

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

#Philip Larkin

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

#Philip Larkin

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

#Philip Larkin

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

#Philip Larkin

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

#Philip Larkin

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

#Unhappiness, #Writing