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Philip Larkin
English
Poet
About the author
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#People
#Writing
#Popularity
#Unhappiness
They say eyes clear with age.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Age
#Eyes
Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Nothing
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Kids
#Man
#Misery
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Life
#Practice
#Living
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Being
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Wife
#American
#Sleep
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Daffodils
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Death
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Children
#May
#Fact
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Day
#Mind
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin,
English
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
#Sense
#Difference