Carly Goodman

“True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.”
― William Congreve, The Way of the World

“He looked at us coldly / And his eyes were dead and his hands on the oar / Were black with obols and varicose veins / Marbled his calves and he said to us coldly: / If you want to die you will have to pay for it”
― Louis MacNeice, Thirties Poets: (Louis MacNeice, W. H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender) (Buenos Aires Poetry | Abracadabra)

“World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.”
― Louis MacNeice

“Now entertain conjecture of a time,
When creeping murmur and the pouring dark
Fill the wide vessel of the universe...
Chorus Henry V ”
― Shakespeare; William