Philip Larkin Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

• 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

  Food, Book, Eye

• They say eyes clear with age.

  Philip Larkin

  Eye, Age, Clear

  Philip Larkin, “Long Sight In Age”

• Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
  Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
  The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
  The costly aversion of the eyes from death-
  Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

  Philip Larkin

  Running, Eye, Solitude

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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