Quotes by : Philip Larkin

Most things may never happen: this one will.

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

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I foundA hedgehog jammed up against the blades,Killed. It had been....

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

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these.....

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

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of....

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep....