As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.
What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.