This quote by Leonardo da Vinci is a suggestion that our actions have repercussions. It is a reminder that if we select to do good, we will be rewarded for it. The quote is saying that if we plant virtue, or do kindness, we will gain honor. This indicates that if we do excellent, we will be rewarded with regard, appreciation, and acknowledgment. It is a suggestion that our actions have effects which we ought to strive to do good in order to be rewarded. It is also a suggestion that we must not anticipate to be rewarded for doing bad. The quote is a pointer that we should strive to do excellent and be virtuous in order to be rewarded with honor.
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"