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

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

“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.”

“Morning, noon & bloody night,”

“Only in books the flat and final happens,”

“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.”

“Time has transfigured them into”

“The fact that I”

“I spit into the face of Time”

“THOUGH you are in your shining days,”

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”

“To see a World in a grain of sand,”

“]sing to us”