I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Philip LarkinIf you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
Philip LarkinI 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