Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.