5 thoughts on “Sure Where Would You Get It?”

  1. Otis Blue

    “Reaching for the world, as our lives do,
    As all lives do, reaching that we may give
    The best of what we are and hold as true:
    Always it is by bridges that we live.”

    Philip Larkin – Bridge for the Living

      1. Otis Blue

        It was written by Larkin to commemorate the opening of the Humber Bridge in 1981.

        Here’s the poem in all its loveliness read by Tom Courtenay.

        https://youtu.be/PNUZ-s7FmYw

        And aren’t the opening lines “Half turned to Europe…holding through centuries her separate place…” an apt metaphor for Brexit?

    2. Paulus

      I’ve read Andrew Motion’s biog of Larkin…twice. It’s a fascinating read for anyone interested in the Hermit of Hull.
      He might have moaned about not getting it, but in fact he got quite a lot of it.

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