Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSLwas an English poet, novelist and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jilland A Girl in Winter, and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddingsand High Windows. He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered in All What Jazz: A...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 August 1922
Philip Larkin quotes about
echoes woods firsts
This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
romantic death inspirational-love
What will survive of us is love.
always-trying people feels
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
being-different different originality
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
sanity affair poetry-is
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.