“Their yearly trick of looking new / Is written down in rings of grain.”

— Philip Larkin, "The Trees", High Windows (1974)

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.”

“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.”