“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”
Philip Larkin Quotes
1922 – 1985
English poet, author of "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows".
21 quotesAbout Philip Larkin on Wikipedia
“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”
“Get out as early as you can, / And don't have any kids yourself.”
“Next year we shall be living in a country / That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.”
“Their yearly trick of looking new / Is written down in rings of grain.”
“I thought of London spread out in the sun, / Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat.”
“But superstition, like belief, must die, / And what remains when disbelief has gone?”
“Hatless, I take off / My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.”
