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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
