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I think a young poet, or an o...

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Never such innocence, Never b...

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I listen to money singing, it...

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 148 quotes

Here silence stands Like heat...

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

The trees are coming into lea...

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Still, vicious or virtuous, L...

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Since the majority of me Reje...

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I am always trying to 'preserv...

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Originality is being different...

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I have a sense of melancholy i...

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I'm terrified of the thought o...

I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

How little our careers express...

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Slowly light strengthens, and ...

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet can't accept. One side will have to go. Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse. The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

It is fatal to decide, intelle...

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I am not sure, once a poet has...

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Never such innocence, Never be...

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

The chromatic scale is what yo...

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Dear, I can't write, it's all ...

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

There is bad in all good autho...

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Saki says that youth is like h...

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

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