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Philip Larkin Quotes about Love

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Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Philip Larkin
Love, Morning, Fire

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

Philip Larkin
Love, Dream, Hands
Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.25, Faber & Faber

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

Philip Larkin
Love, Selfish, Enough
Philip Larkin (2012). “Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982”, p.48, Faber & Faber

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin
Love, Suits, Vicious
Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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