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

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:”

“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.”

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

“Only in books the flat and final happens,”

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

“Always too eager for the future, we”

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

“I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth /”

“I heard a thousand blended notes”

“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an emphatic entry in the public domain with so many expectations, has been circumambulating the corridors of university classrooms and the decision war-rooms of the government-funded and apparently biased award bodies.”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”

“Women Are Not Roses”