Philip Larkin Quotes about Reading

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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

Philip Larkin

Reading, Giving, Thrill

Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.153, Faber & Faber

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

Philip Larkin

Couple, Reading, Thinking