Poetry Quote by Philip Larkin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

“Uncontradicting solitude”

“So many things I had thought forgotten”

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

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:”

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,”

“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.”

“She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.'”

“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us.”

“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us”