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Like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was
too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable?

Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think.

Strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

Poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for.

The curriculum here is set. It’s proven it works. If you question, what’s to prevent them from doing the same.

You must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, that’s bad.

I know what I wanted. For the first time, I gonna do it. ???

Stay away from my son.

…your passion for acting. You ever show him that?

I can’t.

Why not?

I can’t talk to him this way.

You are not an indentured servant.

We’re the victims. Us and Neil.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

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