Quotes by : Philip Larkin

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden from....

Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the....

When getting my nose in a bookCured most things short of school,It was worth ruining my eyesTo know I....

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours....

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were....

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows        Inaccurate,....

We should be carefulOf each other, we should be kindWhile there is still time

I have wished you something None of the others would....

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.....