“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.”

— Philip Larkin, Interview with Miriam Gross, "A voice for our time" in The Observer (16 December 1979)

About Philip Larkin

1922 – 1985

English poet, author of "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows".

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”

“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”

“The mind blanks at the glare.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”