Famous Quotes | Death quarrels, and shakes the...
Death quarrels, and shakes the tree,
And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,
And the founding, foundering, beast-instructed mansion
Of love called into being by this same death
Hangs everywhere its light.
- Philip Larkin
Attribution: Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. “At the chiming of light upon sleep.”
Categories: Death, Love
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