22 ordspråk av Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin föddes den 9 august 1922 och dog den 2 december 1985 -
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like Finnegans Wake and Picasso.

Why should I let the toad work / Squat on my life?

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.

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