Facts about Philip Larkin

Occup.	Poet
From	England
Born	August 9, 1922
Died	December 2, 1985
Aged	63 years

Summary

Philip Larkin was a famous Poet from England, who lived between August 9, 1922 and December 2, 1985. He/she became 63 years old.

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He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Philip.

Related authors: Wendy Cope (Poet)

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

Philip Larkin

"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth"

Philip Larkin

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

Philip Larkin

"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"

Philip Larkin

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere"

Philip Larkin

"Death is no different whined at than withstood"

Philip Larkin

"They say eyes clear with age"

Philip Larkin

"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"

Philip Larkin

"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"

Philip Larkin

"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"

Philip Larkin

"You can't put off being young until you retire"

Philip Larkin

"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?"

Philip Larkin

Facts about Philip Larkin

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