Know or listen to those who know.
I can, therefore I am.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you can dream it, you can 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.