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

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.”

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

“So many things I had thought forgotten”

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

“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.”

“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.”

“This autumn-”

“There is nothing”

“she’s caught”

“LOVE”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”