Regarding “Underrated / Overrated” [Dec. 9]: I just have to believe Chris Barton was aware that the line “The best lack all conviction,” is from the poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats. The poem’s next line is: “while the worst are full of a passionate intensity.” So yes, that line has been written, and better than Andrew Bird in his song “Bloodless.”

Source: Los Angeles Times December 16, 2018 03:56 UTC