To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.
I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.
Funerals prove that someone is really gone.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.