#Philip Larkin

[soracities]

Philip Larkin, from "Be my Valentine this Monday", The Complete Poems [ID in ALT]

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[apoemaday]

The Winter Palace

by Philip Larkin

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university.

And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints,

And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I’ve never been in certain places.

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.

Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.

#poetry #philip larkin #the winter palace

[havingapoemwithyou]

coming by Philip Larkin

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[wastemanjohn]

spn // philip larkin - this be the verse

#larkin was so right for this poem lmao #i've wanted to make this for ages #china makes edits #spn edit #philip larkin

[oyvinja]

"Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off."

Philip Larkin

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[pinnithin-writes]

#the valley #this be the verse #philip larkin #inez

[weirdchristmas]

Happy Father's Day!

#Philip Larkin #Ted Lasso

[dabiconcordia]

 “I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me.” — Philip Larkin

#philip larkin #quote #friendship #via pinterest.com

[charles-jpg]

a new year, to begin again | charles leclerc

#web weaving #a happy one this time! to end the year on a good note #mine #charles leclerc #formula 1 #cl16 #f1 #ferrari #web weaves #credits: #(not in the right order (SORRY!!!)) #louise gluck #b.t.b bliss #jihyun yun #lucille clifton #caitlyn siehl #philip larkin #ellen bass #carmen maria machado

[apoemaday]

"Come then to prayers"

by Philip Larkin

Come then to prayers And kneel upon the stone, For we have tried All courages on these despairs, And are required lastly to give up pride, And the last difficult pride in being humble.

Draw down the window-frame That we may be unparted from the darkness Inviting to the house Air from a field, air from a salt grave, That questions if we have Concealed no flaw in this confessional, And, being satisfied, Lingers, and troubles, and is lightless, And so grows darker, as if clapped on a flame, Whose great extinguishing still makes it tremble.

Only our hearts go beating towards the east. Out of this darkness, let the unmeasured sword Rising from sleep to execute our crown Rest on our shoulders, as we then can rest On the outdistancing, all-capable flood Whose brim touches the morning. Down The long shadows where undriven the dawn Hunts light into nobility, arouse us noble.

#poetry #philip larkin #come then to prayers

[nobrashfestivity]

Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin

Talking in bed ought to be easiest, Lying together there goes back so far, An emblem of two people being honest. Yet more and more time passes silently. Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest Builds and disperses clouds in the sky, And dark towns heap up on the horizon. None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why At this unique distance from isolation It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

#philip larkin #poetry

[juliansummerhayes]

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” ― Philip Larkin

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[finalgirlguy]

An Arundel Tomb, Philip Larkin / As Consciousness Is Harnessed to the Flesh, Susan Sontag / Backwards, Warsan Shire / Radio Silence, Alice Oseman / Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath

#ive just been in such a web weaving mood lately sorry #web weaving #parallels #sylvia plath #philip larkin #susan sontag #warsan shire #alice oseman #maria talks #quotes #w #this is abt a specific period of my life so idk if it makes sense lol

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

#i know this one bc of ted lasso #so #closed polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #tumblr poetry #have you read this #this be the verse #philip larkin

[april-is]

April 10, 2024: The Winter Palace, Philip Larkin

The Winter Palace Philip Larkin

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university.

And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints,

And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I’ve never been in certain places.

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.

Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.

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Also by Philip Larkin: + This Be The Verse + The Trees, Philip Larkin + Aubade, Philip Larkin

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2023: On Keeping Pluto a Planet, Greg Beatty 2022: The Terrible Beauty of the Reserve, Billy-Ray Belcourt 2021: Puerto Rico Goes Dark, Juan J. Morales 2020: Winter Psalm, Richard Hoffman 2019: King Kreations, Angel Nafis 2018: Letter to Larry Levis, Matthew Olzmann 2017: Only she who has breast-fed, Vera Pavlova 2016: First Love, Jan Owen 2015: At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School, Sherman Alexie 2014: Boogaloo, Kevin Young 2013: The Fist, Derek Walcott 2012: Turning, W.S. Merwin 2011: Consolation for Tamar, A.E. Stallings 2010: Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell, Marty McConnell 2009: Bike Ride with Older Boys, Laura Kasischke 2008: Let’s Move All Things (September), Denver Butson 2007: The Day Flies Off Without Me, John Stammers 2006: A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg 2005: Tortures, Wislawa Szymborska

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[quotespile]

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica

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