"Larkin's writing maps out and conceptually creates a scarce, minimally legible layer, and does so as a form of adoration or communion - the presence of scarcity makes its opposite, creative plenitude, come as close as possible." -Edmund Hardy

"Larkin indicates how one can only pay tribute to the rarity and uniqueness of the scarce by not appropriating it in a fraudulent poetic equivalence of pseudo-poverty, but rather by asymptotically approaching it, with genuine humility, from ever new angles." -John Milbank