Quotes from book

The Whitsun Weddings

“What will survive of us is love.

- from”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

"An Arundel Tomb" (20 February 1956)
Variant: Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
Source: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

“Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

"A Study of Reading Habits" (20 August 1960)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word — the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

"MCMXIV"
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love,
Broke out, to show
Its bright incipience sailing above,
Still promising to solve, and satisfy,
And set unchangeably in order. So
To pile them back, to cry,
Was hard, without lamely admitting how
It had not done so then, and could not now.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

"Love Songs in Age" (1 January 1957)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)