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

“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.”

“What will survive of us is love.”

“Morning, noon & bloody night,”

“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.”

“Always too eager for the future, we”

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

“I saw thee once - only once - years ago:”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a”

“I hold it true, whate'er befall;”

“Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight”

“And so I pray I am today as honest”