“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”
Philip Larkin
Tags: American | Chaps | Explaining | Go | Going | How | Poems | Round | Sleep | These | Understand | Universities | Wife | Write | Your
46% of people like this quote
Philip Larkin
Author details
Related authors
Other Philip Larkin Quotes
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin
61% of people like this quote
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Philip Larkin
58% of people like this quote
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin
56% of people like this quote
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
55% of people like this quote