Philip Larkin List of Works

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    “For the first time I’m content to see
    What poor mortar and bricks
    I have to build with, knowing that I can
    Never in seventy years be more a man
    Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    ““A woman has ten claws,”
    Sang the drunken boatswain....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Lastly, his tomb
    Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
    And none shall speak his name.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge—they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.”
    —Vissarion Belinsky (1810–1848)