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

“Most things may never happen: this one will.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When I throw back my head and howl”

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

“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally”

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,”

“Tears upon the dry sponge of heart”

“Where music thundered let the mind be still,”

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

“Επιθυμίες”