Philip Larkin Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Emotion, Ends

  BBC Third Programme, April 13, 1956.

• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation

  Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

• As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Guiding Principles, People

• Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  People, Poetry, About Yourself

  "Required Writing". Book by Philip Larkin, 1983.

• 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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