Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.
Keep your lies short and simple.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.