"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:
“to slam the door on all the days she’ll stay the same
and never ask why and never think who to ask,
to slam the door and rip off her orange blouse.
Father, father, I wish I were dead.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)