The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
You never know what motivates you.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.