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

“Since the majority of me”

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

“What do they think has happened, the old fools,”

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

“Always too eager for the future, we”

“Loving someone who hates”

“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning of the poem is provided to keep the mind busy while the poem gets on with its work -- like the bone thrown to the dog by the robber so he can get on with his work. . . . Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.”

“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

“And watch two men washing clothes,”

“I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?”