If you've got a talent, protect it.
Well done is better than well said.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.