Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence. Philip Larkin More Quotes by Philip Larkin More Quotes From Philip Larkin When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off. Philip Larkin self writing two Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Philip Larkin wordsworth deprivation poetry If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin novelists poet ifs Things are tougher than we are, just Philip Larkin mess earth One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves. Philip Larkin quirks dames life-is I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt. Philip Larkin always-trying feels people Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. Philip Larkin finals age attitude This is the first thing I have understood: Philip Larkin woods echoes firsts Life is first boredom, then fear. Philip Larkin boredom life-is firsts 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 next wish thinking I wonder love can have already set Philip Larkin dream love hands Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. Philip Larkin ifs practice life To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober. Philip Larkin sober feds writing I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Philip Larkin organization sleep writing I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me. Philip Larkin Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back Philip Larkin comfort winning home In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. Philip Larkin loving-life sleep mean I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same. Philip Larkin eye food book Here is an unfenced existance Philip Larkin I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in. Philip Larkin cushions subversive thinking
