Philip Larkin Quotes

“The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough,
Is having the blind persistence
To upset an existence
Just for your own sake.
What cheek it must take.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis

“Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis

“O world,
Your love, your chances, are beyond the stretch
Of any hand from here! And so, unreal,
A touching dream to which we all are lulled
But wake from separately.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis