Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Source: The Old Fools, st 3; in High Windows, 1974.
-- Philip Larkin, (Aug 9 1922-1985), English poet, author, librarian; He gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse; wrote Jill, 1940 and High Windows, 1974.