The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
It's always too early to quit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I can, therefore I am.
After a storm comes a calm.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.