Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.