There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.