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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

#memory #quote #quotes #elderly #dementia #qotd

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

#memory #quote #quotes #elderly #dementia #qotd

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

#memory #quote #quotes #elderly #dementia #qotd

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

#senility #growingold #philiplarkin #detachment #forgetting #gettingold

i just finished watching s3 ep11. twice in a row…

and oh. my. god. only now when the end is nigh they bring in #mom #mother!? and “a drawer without a home”!? and i found myself #sobbing (when did it last happen to me?!) soon after #jamietartt’s win!? then #coachbeard’s talking at the door!? and why is it so hard (heartbreaking) to watch #tedlasso himself cry… #television #tv #appletvplus #homecinema #heimkino #thisbetheverse #philiplarkin #poem #poetry https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

#poetry #poem #philiplarkin #thisbetheverse #heimkino #homecinema