“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back.”

— Philip Larkin, "Home Is so Sad", The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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.”

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

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

“A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort ; but a Friend is both.”

“Adults make their children suffer for the sake of appearances, or to save themselves a little trouble.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“God setteth the solitary in families.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”