Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.