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They both rise / Make for the Coke dispenser. 'What's he like? / Christ, I just told you.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
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 ultimately dying.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Earth never grieves, I thought, walking across the park, watching seagulls cruising greedily above the ground looking for heaven knows what. Don't you think it's a good line? A very good line
Quote by -Philip Larkin
I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation')
Quote by -Philip Larkin
I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye
Quote by -Philip Larkin
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Quote by -William Cowper
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
Quote by -William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Quote by -William Cowper
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
Quote by -William Cowper
In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All around the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
May make my heart as a milestone, set my face as a flint, cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson