Let all your thinks be thanks.
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.