Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
You never know what motivates you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
It's always too early to quit.
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.