Philip Larkin Quotes - Page 6

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• I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, Scene, Individual

  Philip Larkin (2013). “Further Requirements”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

  Philip Larkin

  Meals, Eating, Good Meals

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• Joy
  Is for the simple or the great to feel,
  Neither of which we are.

  Philip Larkin

  Simple, Joy, Feels

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• Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, Existence, Elsewhere

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

  Philip Larkin

  Memories, Chance

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• Walk with the dead
  For fear of death.

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  Death, Fear Of Death, Walks

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

  Philip Larkin

  Book, Reading, Crap

  The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Study of Reading Habits"

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• It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

  Philip Larkin

  Kind, Difficult, Stills

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Butterfly, Looks

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