If you're going through hell, keep going.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.