So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.More Philip Larkin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.More Philip Larkin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.More Philip Larkin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.More Philip Larkin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.More Philip Larkin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]