Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:33896
QUOTATION:One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we’re still alive?
ATTRIBUTION:Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. “Dear CHARLES, My Muse, asleep or dead.”
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com