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Any memory for the most part d...

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I am awakened each dawn
I...

I am awakened each dawn
Increasingly to fear....

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Here no elsewhere underwrites ...

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Living in England has no such ...

Living in England has no such excuse:
These are my customs and establishments....

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Joy
Is for the simple or ...

Joy
Is for the simple or the great to feel,
Neither of which we are.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I think writing about unhappin...

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I'd like to think...that peopl...

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Why should I let the toad work...

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Poetry is an affair of sanity,...

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familar,eternalizing the poet's own poerception in unique and original verbal form.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Life and literature is a quest...

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

If we seriously contemplate li...

If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

You can look out of your life ...

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

I never think of poetry or the...

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

But, o, photography! as no art...

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Only one ship is seeking us, a...

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

But superstition, like belief,...

But superstition, like belief, must die...

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

He married a woman to stop her...

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

What will survive of us is lov...

What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

...the breath that sharpens li...

...the breath that sharpens life is life itself...

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

Something, like nothing, happe...

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Philip Larkin 148 quotes

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