Life and Existence
Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
Philip Larkin
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)— Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.
Philip Larkin
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)— Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.
Philip Larkin
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)— Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.
Philip Larkin
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off?
Kingsley Amis
Death has got something to be said for it: There’s no need to get out of bed for it; Wherever you may be, They bring it to you, free.
Paul Celan
Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night we drink you at noon death is a master from Germany we drink you at sundown and in the morning we drink death is a master from Germany his eyes are blue… he sets his pack on to us he grants us a grave in the air he plays with the serpents and daydreams death is a master
Gwendolyn Brooks
The time cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face all unashamed. And sways in wicked grace.
Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks
And remembering… Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.