now my class you will learn to think for
yourself again you will learn to savor
words and language but what anybody
tells you words and ideas can change the
world
we don't read and write poetry because
it's cute we read and write poetry
because we are members of the human race
and the human race is filled with
passion medicine law business
engineering these are noble pursuits are
necessary to sustain life
poetry Beauty romance love he's a what
we stay alive for
of life of the questions of these
recurring of the endless trains of the
faithless of cities filled with the
foolish but good amid these life
you are here life exists
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the powerful play goes on here
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we are first beat
you must strive to find your own voice
the longer you wait to begin the less
likely you are to find it at all Thoreau
said most men lead lives of quiet
desperation
don't be resigned to that break out
informally the difficulty in maintaining
your own belief in the facing of others
for those of you I see the look in your
eyes like I would have walked
differently ask yourselves why you were
clapping we all have a great need for
acceptance but 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
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Robert Frost said two roads diverged in
a wood and I I took the one less
traveled by and that has made all the
difference
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if I asked you about out you'd probably
give me the skinny on every art book
ever written Michelangelo you know a lot
about him thanks work political
aspirations human the Pope sexual
orientation the whole works right
but you can't tell me what it smells
like in the Sistine Chapel
you never actually stood there looked up
with a beautiful ceiling
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seeing that
if I ask you about women ever give me a
silver say your personal favorites you
may have even been laid a few times but
you can't tell me what it feels like to
wake up next to a woman truly I ask you
about war you probably throw Shakespeare
at me right once more into the breach
dear friends
you never been near one you never held
your best friend's head in their lap
watching them gasp his last breath
looking to you
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ask you about love but they caught me a
sonnet but you've never looked at a
woman and been totally vulnerable known
someone that could level you with her
eyes feeling like God put an angel on
earth just for you I could rescue you
from the depths of hell and you wouldn't
know what it's like to be her angel they
have that love for her be there forever
through anything through cancer and you
wouldn't know about sleep and sitting up
in a hospital room for two months
holding her hand because the doctors
could see in your eyes that the terms
visiting hours don't apply to you you
don't know about real loss because it
only occurs when you love something more
than you love yourself
I don't you ever dare to love anybody
that much
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