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Dan Kennedy, "My Thank You Speech for Poetry Class"

“In closing, to all of you, I have one simple suggestion: if you decide to take another poetry class, push yourself. Even if you don’t take another class, push yourself in life, in work, in love, in every tiny death that befalls your best plan or step. Try hard to find some kind of hunger, because as it stands, you’re an easy take for whatever fate wants to do with you.”