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Philip Larkin Quotes

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn’t true! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three Picture Quote #1

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It’s sad, really Picture Quote #1

Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end Picture Quote #1

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd Picture Quote #1

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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It’s more like a desire to separate a piece of one’s experience and set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs Picture Quote #1

I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it’s all the same Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds Picture Quote #1

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They’re very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged Picture Quote #1

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn’t true! (Philip Larkin Quotes) 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 (Philip Larkin Quotes) Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three (Philip Larkin Quotes) How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It’s sad, really (Philip Larkin Quotes) Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end (Philip Larkin Quotes) Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd (Philip Larkin Quotes) The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It’s more like a desire to separate a piece of one’s experience and set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs (Philip Larkin Quotes) I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it’s all the same (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 Quotes) I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds (Philip Larkin Quotes) The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They’re very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged (Philip Larkin Quotes)

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