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 More Quotes by Philip Larkin More Quotes From Philip Larkin To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted. Philip Larkin incompetent new-places feels 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 doctors light sky Give me a thrill, says the reader, Philip Larkin thrill reading giving Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn. Philip Larkin parting autumn training Many famous feet have trod Philip Larkin greatness feet hands I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems Philip Larkin pubs people thinking 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 faithful photography art Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock. Philip Larkin finals dream book Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. Philip Larkin hang-over iceland ifs 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 mad fear long 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 distance weed beach The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. Philip Larkin unemployment benefits work But O, Photography! as no art is, Philip Larkin faithful photography art Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. Philip Larkin wordsworth daffodil depression Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. Philip Larkin moments mean sex Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Philip Larkin three should age Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. Philip Larkin support simple sea Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Philip Larkin solitude eye running My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Philip Larkin hate mother summer Originality is being different from oneself, not others. Philip Larkin being-different originality different
