All Quotes By Tag: Philip-larkin

“Dear, I can’t write, it’s all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

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Tag: letters, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poetry, writing,

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

Card image cap - Philip Larkin,
Tag: family, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poem, poet, poetry, youth,

“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn’t true!”

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Tag: authors, letters, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poems, poet, poetry, writing,

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you’re an artist, by children if you’re not.”

Card image cap - Philip Larkin,
Tag: art, children, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poem, poet, poetry, youth,