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Quotes Tagged "letters-to-monica"

Morning, noon & bloody night, Seven sodding days a week, I slave at filthy WORK, that might Be done by any book-drunk freak. This goes on until I kick the bucket. FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT
— Philip Larkin Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: poetry, letters-to-monica, humour
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 Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: youth, poetry, poet, poem, philip-larkin, letters-to-monica, children, art
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
— Philip Larkin Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: writing, poetry, philip-larkin, letters-to-monica, letters
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
— Philip Larkin Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: youth, poetry, poet, poem, philip-larkin, letters-to-monica, family
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
— Philip Larkin Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: youth, writing, poetry, poet, letters-to-monica, letters
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
— Philip Larkin Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tags: writing, poetry, poet, poems, philip-larkin, letters-to-monica, letters, authors
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