If you can dream it, you can do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
You never know what motivates you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Only the educated are free.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.