Philip Larkin Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

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

  Philip Larkin

  Age, Three, Should

• Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

  Philip Larkin

  Attitude, Age, Finals

• Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

  Philip Larkin

  Children, Husband, Lying

• They say eyes clear with age.

  Philip Larkin

  Eye, Age, Clear

  Philip Larkin, “Long Sight In Age”

• My age fallen away like white swaddling
  Floats in the middle distance, becomes
  An inhabited cloud.

  Philip Larkin

  Distance, Clouds, White

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

• Life is first boredom, then fear.
  Whether or not we use it, it goes,
  And leaves what something hidden from us chose,
  And age, and then the only end of age.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Boredom, Age

  'Dockery & Son' (1964)

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