Philip Larkin Quotes

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin

Simple, Children, May

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin

Life, Live, Living

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin

Yourself, Kids, Hands

They say eyes clear with age.
Philip Larkin

Age, Eyes, Clear

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin

Sleep, Wife, Understand

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Philip Larkin

Mind, Same, Seeing

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin

Life, Love, Nothing

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
Philip Larkin

Nothing, Happens, Anywhere

Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Philip Larkin

Death, Different

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin

Writing, Unhappy, Popularity

You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin

Young, Put, Off

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 9, 1922

Died: December 2, 1985

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