Philip Larkin Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

  Philip Larkin

  Lying, Careers, Littles

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

• Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

  Philip Larkin

  Children, Husband, Lying

• I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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