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

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“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.”

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

“What will survive of us is love.”

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“Uncontradicting solitude”

“One reads poetry because he is a member of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion! Medicine, law, banking - these are necesseary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!”

“Ce bine că eşti, ce mirare că sunt!”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”

“Only our love hath no decay;”

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.”

“I long for scenes where man hath never trod”