Essay: "The Case for Memorizing Poetry"

I know scarcely any poetry by heart, save a few random verses of Baudelaire and Jean de la Fontaine from high school, but I found this essay to be very persuasive:

"The Case for Memorizing Poetry" by Jim Holt (from The New York Times)

Since reading it, I managed to memorize "The Road Not Taken," which is hardly the most difficult poem (it's so familiar at this point), but a step in the right direction nonetheless. I thought I might try something a bit more ambitious, but instead I've apparently decided to try....nothing. Maybe posting this will be a kick in the pants to exercise my brain a bit more (A kick in the head, then? That doesn't sound right.)