"Days" is a short poem (10 lines) by Philip Larkin, written in 1953 and included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings.
It begins with a section of 6 lines, opening
- What are days for?
in a mock-contented tone.
The final 4 lines bring a brutal reply
- Ah, solving that question
- Brings the priest and the doctor
- In their long coats
- Running over the fields.
Famous quotes containing the word days:
“Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 7:10.