After a storm comes a calm.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Know or listen to those who know.
Only the educated are free.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.