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  1. "It's always been a source of mild surprise to me that what society has been prepared to pay me for is being a librarian." — Philip Larkin
    (heard on the 09 August 2026 episode of Jarvis Cocker's Someday Service)

    #bbc6music #PhilipLarkin #LibraryLife

  2. "It's always been a source of mild surprise to me that what society has been prepared to pay me for is being a librarian." — Philip Larkin
    (heard on the 09 August 2026 episode of Jarvis Cocker's Someday Service)

    #bbc6music #PhilipLarkin #LibraryLife

  3. "It's always been a source of mild surprise to me that what society has been prepared to pay me for is being a librarian." — Philip Larkin
    (heard on the 09 August 2026 episode of Jarvis Cocker's Someday Service)

    #bbc6music #PhilipLarkin #LibraryLife

  4. "It's always been a source of mild surprise to me that what society has been prepared to pay me for is being a librarian." — Philip Larkin
    (heard on the 09 August 2026 episode of Jarvis Cocker's Someday Service)

    #bbc6music #PhilipLarkin #LibraryLife

  5. "It's always been a source of mild surprise to me that what society has been prepared to pay me for is being a librarian." — Philip Larkin
    (heard on the 09 August 2026 episode of Jarvis Cocker's Someday Service)

    #bbc6music #PhilipLarkin #LibraryLife

  6. The Guardian view on Andy Burnham: political poetry must become governing prose | Editorial
    By Editorial

    Larkin, Harrison and Shakespeare shaped Labour’s leader. Now comes the harder task: turning language into lasting change

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #AndyBurnham #Labour #TonyHarrison #Politics #Labourpartyleadership #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial

  7. The Guardian view on Andy Burnham: political poetry must become governing prose | Editorial
    By Editorial

    Larkin, Harrison and Shakespeare shaped Labour’s leader. Now comes the harder task: turning language into lasting change

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #AndyBurnham #Labour #TonyHarrison #Politics #Labourpartyleadership #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial

  8. A quotation from Philip Larkin

    Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
    Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
    People you know, yet can’t quite name.

    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
    Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  9. A quotation from Philip Larkin

    Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
    Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
    People you know, yet can’t quite name.

    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
    Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  10. A quotation from Philip Larkin

    Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
    Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
    People you know, yet can’t quite name.

    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
    Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  11. A quotation from Philip Larkin

    Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
    Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
    People you know, yet can’t quite name.

    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
    Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  12. "Decades later, I still remember that April morning with a vividness that makes me want to visit the home in which I grew up on some early spring morning ... just to see if I can re-feel that feeling."-- #Spring and me and #PhilipLarkin: My latest, "'Coming into leaf'" ( wp.me/p49Ewg-448 )

    thegadabouttown.com/2026/04/06

  13. "Decades later, I still remember that April morning with a vividness that makes me want to visit the home in which I grew up on some early spring morning ... just to see if I can re-feel that feeling."-- #Spring and me and #PhilipLarkin: My latest, "'Coming into leaf'" ( wp.me/p49Ewg-448 )

    thegadabouttown.com/2026/04/06

  14. "Decades later, I still remember that April morning with a vividness that makes me want to visit the home in which I grew up on some early spring morning ... just to see if I can re-feel that feeling."-- #Spring and me and #PhilipLarkin: My latest, "'Coming into leaf'" ( wp.me/p49Ewg-448 )

    thegadabouttown.com/2026/04/06

  15. They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

    Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 553: Philip Larkin, This be the verse
    bit.ly/PIM553-larkin
    #poëzie #animatie #Boekenweek #PhilipLarkin #generaties #doorgeven #ouders #kinderen #ellende

  16. Toad Work

    Recently I have been enjoying the British television series “Down Cemetery Road.” It is a brilliant mystery drama with first-rate acting, and it can be found on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in Canada.

    I discovered the source of the show’s title only when one of the key characters, played by Emma Thompson, recited some of Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads Revisited” which mentions Cemetery Road.

    brian.gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    I found the poem on The Poetry Hour website and read it through three times until I felt as though I was in tune with the author’s meaning. I was especially taken by the last stanza which reads:

    When the lights come on at four
    At the end of another year?
    Give me your arm, old toad;
    Help me down Cemetery Road.

    Two Toads from Randy Robertson via Flickr

    As I write this post, it is 4:05 PM, and the sun has just gone down behind the buildings that I see from my windows. My blinds have closed automatically already; they are set to close at half an hour before sunset. The lights that my neighbours have placed in the community gardens have been on all day, but the Christmas lights that I have strung around my patio came on at 3:40. Not four o’clock exactly, but pretty close to the poem’s imaginings.

    The verses refer to working people of various kinds, and I wondered what was meant by “toad work” so I Googled it. This is how Google AI explains it:

    Toads from Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures

    “The toad work” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” symbolizes the heavy, unromantic, and burdensome nature of daily work and societal obligations, a persistent, ugly pressure that squats on one’s life, forcing the speaker to trade days of freedom for money and a pension, even as he grudgingly recognizes his own “toad-like” participation in this system. It’s a metaphor for the monotonous 9-to-5 grind that stifles personal passions, contrasting with the dream of living by one’s wits, yet the poem concludes that both internal and external “toads” (work and creative duty) are inescapable, says Interesting Literature and All Poetry

    My days of toad work are over, but the lights still come on at around 4 PM in winter here, and I enjoy them. It would be nice to have someone to take my arm as my aging body takes walks, but I am grateful that I have the strength to walk alone.

    I heartily recommend both the TV show and the poem. They will give you lots to think about.

    #aging #christmas #downCemeteryRoad #lights #philipLarkin #poetry #sunset #television #toadsRevisited #winter

  17. Toad Work

    Recently I have been enjoying the British television series “Down Cemetery Road.” It is a brilliant mystery drama with first-rate acting, and it can be found on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in Canada.

    I discovered the source of the show’s title only when one of the key characters, played by Emma Thompson, recited some of Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads Revisited” which mentions Cemetery Road.

    brian.gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    I found the poem on The Poetry Hour website and read it through three times until I felt as though I was in tune with the author’s meaning. I was especially taken by the last stanza which reads:

    When the lights come on at four
    At the end of another year?
    Give me your arm, old toad;
    Help me down Cemetery Road.

    Two Toads from Randy Robertson via Flickr

    As I write this post, it is 4:05 PM, and the sun has just gone down behind the buildings that I see from my windows. My blinds have closed automatically already; they are set to close at half an hour before sunset. The lights that my neighbours have placed in the community gardens have been on all day, but the Christmas lights that I have strung around my patio came on at 3:40. Not four o’clock exactly, but pretty close to the poem’s imaginings.

    The verses refer to working people of various kinds, and I wondered what was meant by “toad work” so I Googled it. This is how Google AI explains it:

    Toads from Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures

    “The toad work” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” symbolizes the heavy, unromantic, and burdensome nature of daily work and societal obligations, a persistent, ugly pressure that squats on one’s life, forcing the speaker to trade days of freedom for money and a pension, even as he grudgingly recognizes his own “toad-like” participation in this system. It’s a metaphor for the monotonous 9-to-5 grind that stifles personal passions, contrasting with the dream of living by one’s wits, yet the poem concludes that both internal and external “toads” (work and creative duty) are inescapable, says Interesting Literature and All Poetry

    My days of toad work are over, but the lights still come on at around 4 PM in winter here, and I enjoy them. It would be nice to have someone to take my arm as my aging body takes walks, but I am grateful that I have the strength to walk alone.

    I heartily recommend both the TV show and the poem. They will give you lots to think about.

    #aging #christmas #downCemeteryRoad #lights #nature #philipLarkin #poetry #sunset #television #toadsRevisited #winter #writing

  18. Toad Work

    Recently I have been enjoying the British television series “Down Cemetery Road.” It is a brilliant mystery drama with first-rate acting, and it can be found on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in Canada.

    I discovered the source of the show’s title only when one of the key characters, played by Emma Thompson, recited some of Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads Revisited” which mentions Cemetery Road.

    brian.gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    I found the poem on The Poetry Hour website and read it through three times until I felt as though I was in tune with the author’s meaning. I was especially taken by the last stanza which reads:

    When the lights come on at four
    At the end of another year?
    Give me your arm, old toad;
    Help me down Cemetery Road.

    Two Toads from Randy Robertson via Flickr

    As I write this post, it is 4:05 PM, and the sun has just gone down behind the buildings that I see from my windows. My blinds have closed automatically already; they are set to close at half an hour before sunset. The lights that my neighbours have placed in the community gardens have been on all day, but the Christmas lights that I have strung around my patio came on at 3:40. Not four o’clock exactly, but pretty close to the poem’s imaginings.

    The verses refer to working people of various kinds, and I wondered what was meant by “toad work” so I Googled it. This is how Google AI explains it:

    Toads from Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures

    “The toad work” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” symbolizes the heavy, unromantic, and burdensome nature of daily work and societal obligations, a persistent, ugly pressure that squats on one’s life, forcing the speaker to trade days of freedom for money and a pension, even as he grudgingly recognizes his own “toad-like” participation in this system. It’s a metaphor for the monotonous 9-to-5 grind that stifles personal passions, contrasting with the dream of living by one’s wits, yet the poem concludes that both internal and external “toads” (work and creative duty) are inescapable, says Interesting Literature and All Poetry

    My days of toad work are over, but the lights still come on at around 4 PM in winter here, and I enjoy them. It would be nice to have someone to take my arm as my aging body takes walks, but I am grateful that I have the strength to walk alone.

    I heartily recommend both the TV show and the poem. They will give you lots to think about.

    #aging #christmas #downCemeteryRoad #lights #philipLarkin #poetry #sunset #television #toadsRevisited #winter

  19. Toad Work

    Recently I have been enjoying the British television series “Down Cemetery Road.” It is a brilliant mystery drama with first-rate acting, and it can be found on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in Canada.

    I discovered the source of the show’s title only when one of the key characters, played by Emma Thompson, recited some of Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads Revisited” which mentions Cemetery Road.

    brian.gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    I found the poem on The Poetry Hour website and read it through three times until I felt as though I was in tune with the author’s meaning. I was especially taken by the last stanza which reads:

    When the lights come on at four
    At the end of another year?
    Give me your arm, old toad;
    Help me down Cemetery Road.

    Two Toads from Randy Robertson via Flickr

    As I write this post, it is 4:05 PM, and the sun has just gone down behind the buildings that I see from my windows. My blinds have closed automatically already; they are set to close at half an hour before sunset. The lights that my neighbours have placed in the community gardens have been on all day, but the Christmas lights that I have strung around my patio came on at 3:40. Not four o’clock exactly, but pretty close to the poem’s imaginings.

    The verses refer to working people of various kinds, and I wondered what was meant by “toad work” so I Googled it. This is how Google AI explains it:

    Toads from Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures

    “The toad work” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” symbolizes the heavy, unromantic, and burdensome nature of daily work and societal obligations, a persistent, ugly pressure that squats on one’s life, forcing the speaker to trade days of freedom for money and a pension, even as he grudgingly recognizes his own “toad-like” participation in this system. It’s a metaphor for the monotonous 9-to-5 grind that stifles personal passions, contrasting with the dream of living by one’s wits, yet the poem concludes that both internal and external “toads” (work and creative duty) are inescapable, says Interesting Literature and All Poetry

    My days of toad work are over, but the lights still come on at around 4 PM in winter here, and I enjoy them. It would be nice to have someone to take my arm as my aging body takes walks, but I am grateful that I have the strength to walk alone.

    I heartily recommend both the TV show and the poem. They will give you lots to think about.

    #aging #christmas #downCemeteryRoad #lights #philipLarkin #poetry #sunset #television #toadsRevisited #winter

  20. “Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW

    4/5

    theparisreview.org/blog/2014/0

    #Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph

  21. “Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW

    4/5

    theparisreview.org/blog/2014/0

    #Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph

  22. “Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW

    4/5

    theparisreview.org/blog/2014/0

    #Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph

  23. “Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW

    4/5

    theparisreview.org/blog/2014/0

    #Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph

  24. “Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW

    4/5

    theparisreview.org/blog/2014/0

    #Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph

  25. 🎵Jazz tracks mentioned by poet Philip Larkin in his famous collection of reviews, All What Jazz #jazz #philiplarkin #music #playlist #Spotify #poetry #larkin #poem

    🎧 Click here to listen to the playlist 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/2AFE

    www.speckled.band

  26. 🎵Jazz tracks mentioned by poet Philip Larkin in his famous collection of reviews, All What Jazz #jazz #philiplarkin #music #playlist #Spotify #poetry #larkin #poem

    🎧 Click here to listen to the playlist 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/2AFE

    www.speckled.band

  27. 🎵Jazz tracks mentioned by poet Philip Larkin in his famous collection of reviews, All What Jazz #jazz #philiplarkin #music #playlist #Spotify #poetry #larkin #poem

    🎧 Click here to listen to the playlist 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/2AFE

    www.speckled.band

  28. 🎵Jazz tracks mentioned by poet Philip Larkin in his famous collection of reviews, All What Jazz #jazz #philiplarkin #music #playlist #Spotify #poetry #larkin #poem

    🎧 Click here to listen to the playlist 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/2AFE

    www.speckled.band

  29. This Be The Ditty

    They buck you up, your mum and dad
    They really mean to, yes they do.
    They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
    Stir in some extra just for you

    #ThisBeTheVerse
    #PhilipLarkin
    #MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial#HashTagGames

  30. This Be The Ditty

    They buck you up, your mum and dad
    They really mean to, yes they do.
    They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
    Stir in some extra just for you

    #ThisBeTheVerse
    #PhilipLarkin
    #MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial#HashTagGames

  31. This Be The Dirty

    They buck you up, your mum and dad
    They really mean to, yes they do.
    They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
    Stir in some extra just for you

    #ThisBeTheVerse
    #PhilipLarkin
    #MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial#HashTagGames

  32. This Be The Ditty

    They buck you up, your mum and dad
    They really mean to, yes they do.
    They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
    Stir in some extra just for you

    #ThisBeTheVerse
    #PhilipLarkin
    #MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial#HashTagGames

  33. This Be The Ditty

    They buck you up, your mum and dad
    They really mean to, yes they do.
    They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
    Stir in some extra just for you

    #ThisBeTheVerse
    #PhilipLarkin
    #MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial#HashTagGames

  34. They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you. … #PhilipLarkin via #AnneClark