Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.