It's always too early to quit.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.