“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“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
— Philip Larkin“Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.”
— Philip Larkin