Is poetry better than sex?

Question:

Is poetry better than sex?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The question only makes sense if you are forced to choose between them. Now suppose I am settled down with, say, a book of Yeats' verse. Good stuff, love it! There's a knock on my door and heigh ho! there stands Joanna Lumley who begs me to pleasure her peerless body. So, I look at my book on Yeats, and I look at the divine form of Joanna, and do you know what I do?..............................
I wake up, that's what I do. Dang!