Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
I can, therefore I am.
Never complain and never explain.
Leap, and the net will appear.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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.