Never complain and never explain.
Know or listen to those who know.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.