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

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Always too eager for the future, we”

“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.”

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

“Time has transfigured them into”

“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.”

“You will recognize your own path”

“My Personality”

“Fellow-wanderer,”

“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”

“when we were kids”

“The weak breeze whispers nothing”