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

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“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.”

“So many things I had thought forgotten”

“What will survive of us is love.”

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

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were”

“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t”

“The Vagabond”

“Well, let them seize on all they can;—”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“I can speak of you now to anyone because I’ve stopped wanting anything like what I once wanted from you.”