
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
"Ulysses," lines 16–20, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
Poems
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
"Hunting a Hare"; translated by W.H. Auden, p. 13.
Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
“Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, —
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.”
Sonnet XXXIV
Sonnets (1844)
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, pp. 419-420
“Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.”
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 24
Elegies
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423
“All flesh is one: what matter scores”
"All flesh is one: what matter scores?" in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed : Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)
Context: All flesh is one: what matter scores;
Or color of the suit
Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold?
All is one bold achievement,
All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day
When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green…