Larkin

Famous quotes containing the word larkin:

“Still going on, all of it, still going on!
To lie, eat, sleep in hearing of the surf....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Nor will the love, gay as any leaf,
Assuage his anguish. And the lions laugh.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we’re still alive?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)