
"Pietà"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
"Pietà"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
“You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
"Yes", from Naked; inspired by Molly Bloom's soliloquy in James Joyce's Ulysses (2002). Live performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbsGpcc0Fw
“I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
Context: I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.