Inspirational Quotes by Philip Larkin — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

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

“I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.”

“What will survive of us is love.”

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.”

“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”

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

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“What do they think has happened, the old fools,”

“Always too eager for the future, we”

“Time has transfigured them into”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“Only in books the flat and final happens,”

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

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:”

“Since the majority of me”

“Uncontradicting solitude”

“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.”

“So many things I had thought forgotten”

“Morning, noon & bloody night,”

“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.”

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”