By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
It's always too early to quit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.