If you can dream it, you can do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Know or listen to those who know.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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.