Philip Larkin Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

  Philip Larkin

  Past, Men, Garden

  The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "MCMXIV"

• Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

  Philip Larkin

  Weed, Beach, Distance

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.5, Faber & Faber

• One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

  Philip Larkin

  Past, Poetry, Criticism

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