Philip Larkin: Quotes about feelings

Philip Larkin was English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian. Explore interesting quotes on feeling.
Philip Larkin: 84   quotes 2   likes

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

Philip Larkin

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Life , Children , Art , Feeling

“I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.”

Philip Larkin

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Life , Feeling , Sense , Strong

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

Philip Larkin

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

People , Feeling , Reading

“And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.”

Philip Larkin book The Less Deceived

Coming
The Less Deceived (1955)

Feeling , Understanding , Laughter , Childhood

“to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.”

Philip Larkin

Letter to Winifred Arnott, 7 October 1953

Feeling