Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.