Larkin

Famous quotes containing the word larkin:

    The wine heats temper and complexion:
    Oath-enforced assertions fly
    On rheumy fevers, resurrection,
    Regicide and rabbit pie.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Time in his little cinema of the heart
    Giving a première to Hate and Pain;
    And Space urbanely keeping us apart.
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “A woman has ten claws,”
    Sang the drunken boatswain....
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)