Larkin

Famous quotes containing the word larkin:

“Like the train’s beat
Swift language flutters the lips
Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Now you become my boredom and my failure,
Another way of suffering, a risk,
A heavier-than-air hypostasis.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The mind, it’s said, is free:
But not your minds. They, rusted stiff, admit
Only what will accuse or horrify,
Like slot-machines only bent pennies fit.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)