To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
You never know what motivates you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do 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.