letters to monica

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

— Philip Larkin

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

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

— Philip Larkin

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

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin