Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
William Butler YeatsI gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.
William Butler YeatsWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats