Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
Philip LarkinTags: sex meaning ecstasy nothingness
Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.
Philip LarkinDeprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip LarkinMuch better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.
Tags: society solitude virtue company
Living toys are something novel,
But it soon wears off somehow.
Tags: humor
I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry writing youth letters poet letters-to-monica
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry writing letters letters-to-monica philip-larkin
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Philip LarkinTags: poetry writing letters authors poet poems letters-to-monica philip-larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry family youth poem poet letters-to-monica philip-larkin
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