Larkin’s poem is about truth and untruth more than it is about love, but I’ve never forgotten this last line.
What will survive of us is love.
—Philip Larkin, ‘An Arundel tomb’
Larkin’s poem is about truth and untruth more than it is about love, but I’ve never forgotten this last line.
What will survive of us is love.
—Philip Larkin, ‘An Arundel tomb’
Filed under December fragments 2012
Author of SIX DAYS (August 2026), KATHLEEN O’CONNOR OF PARIS (narrative non-fiction), ELEMENTAL and THE SINKINGS (novels) and INHERITED (short story collection). looking up/looking down is an occasional blog about writing, reading and watching the world...

Beautiful!
Thanks, Karen