Philip Larkin Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

  Philip Larkin

  Unique, Technique, Needs

• 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

  Men, Feet, Literature

  Letter to J.B.Sutton, December 21, 1942.

• One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

  Philip Larkin

  Past, Poetry, Criticism

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