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

“Always too eager for the future, we”

“Morning, noon & bloody night,”

“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 am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

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

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“The Girl With Many Eyes”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“...if you do not even understand what words say,”

“the worst thing," he told me,”

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

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”