About Philip Larkin
1922 - 1985/Male/EnglishA poet, novelist and librarian who wrote about emotions, places, and relationships. (wikipedia)
Selected Quotes
Poetry & Stories
First Sight
Lambs that learn to walk in snowWhen their bleating clouds the air
Essential Beauty
In frames as large as rooms that face all waysAnd block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Cut Grass
Cut grass lies frail:Brief is the breath
An Arundel Tomb
Side by side, their faces blurred,The earl and countess lie in stone,
Continuing To Live
Continuing to live - that is, repeatA habit formed to get necessaries -
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Who is Philip Larkin?
1922 - 1985/Male/EnglishA poet, novelist and librarian who wrote about emotions, places, and relationships.
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Kavishala has 23 poems and stories by Philip Larkin, free to read on this page, along with selected quotes you can share.
Poems & Stories by Philip Larkin
First Sight
Lambs that learn to walk in snowWhen their bleating clouds the air
Essential Beauty
In frames as large as rooms that face all waysAnd block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Cut Grass
Cut grass lies frail:Brief is the breath
An Arundel Tomb
Side by side, their faces blurred,The earl and countess lie in stone,
Continuing To Live
Continuing to live - that is, repeatA habit formed to get necessaries -
At Grass
The eye can hardly pick them outFrom the cold shade they shelter in,
Church Going
Once I am sure there's nothing going onI step inside, letting the door thud shut.
Best Society
When I was a child, I thought,Casually, that solitude
Deceptions
'Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regainconsciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to
Ambulances
Closed like confessionals, they threadLoud noons of cities, giving back
Love Songs In Age
She kept her songs, they kept so little space,The covers pleased her:
Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel
Light spreads darkly downwards from the highClusters of lights over empty chairs
Selected Quotes by Philip Larkin (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
Side by side, their faces blurred,The earl and countess lie in stone,
'Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regainconsciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to
She kept her songs, they kept so little space,The covers pleased her:
Closed like confessionals, they threadLoud noons of cities, giving back
Cut grass lies frail:Brief is the breath
In frames as large as rooms that face all waysAnd block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
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