Morning, noon
Philip LarkinTags: poetry humour letters-to-monica
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.
Philip LarkinTags: art poetry children youth poem poet letters-to-monica philip-larkin
A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body grows
Inaccurate, tired;
Then I shall start to feel the backward pull
Take over, sickening and masterful —
Some say, desired.
And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time.
- Maturity
Tags: maturity exhaustion stasis
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
Tags: innocence war sadness change expectation
Time has transfigured them into
Untruth. The stone fidelity
They hardly meant has come to be
Their final blazon, and to prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
Tags: love poetry time death poem
I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others
Philip LarkinTags: death
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience
Philip LarkinHe [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.
Philip LarkinOriginality is being different from oneself, not others.
Philip LarkinWhy can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?
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