"Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?You seem to ask.I make a ...












Most things may never happen: this one will.
More Philip Larkin quotes
"Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost t...
"I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, ...
"he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for u...
"One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
"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 a...
"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.
"Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
"If grief could burn outLike a sunken coal,The heart would rest quiet, The unrent soulBe still as a veil; But I have watched all nightThe fire grow sil...
"What will survive of us is love.
"life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden from us chose,and age, and then the only end of ag...