Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.