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No matter what anybody tells you,
words and ideas can change the world.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Neil Perry, Opening line for Dead Poets Society by Henry David Thoreau
I stand upon my desk to remind yourself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
You see, the world looks very different from up here.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Sometimes the most beautiful poetry can be about simple things, like a cat, or a flower or rain. You see, poetry can come from anything with the stuff of revelation in it. Just don't let your poems be ordinary.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)
A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
His hands reach out and choke me.
And, and all the time he's mumbling.
M-Mumbling, "Truth. Truth is like, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold."
You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us.
From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.
- Todd Anderson, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Laughing, crying, tumbling,mumbling.
Gotta do more! Gotta be more!
- Charlie 'Nuwanda' Dalton, Dead Poet's Society (1989)
"Carpe diem." Even if it kills me.
- Knox Overstreet, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Now, 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 baaaaad."
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society(1989)
Sure there's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)
Neil: You can go anywhere. You can do anything. How can you stand being here?
Keating: 'Cause I love teaching. I don't wanna be anywhere else.
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
Me: Two words sentence can't make me cry.
Neil: "I'm trapped."
Me: *sobbing* OH NO, please no.
The heavens made a girl named Chris
With hair and skin of gold.
To touch her would be paradise.
- Knox Overstreet, Dead Poets Society (1989)
"I was good. I was really good."
- Last words of Neil Perry, Dead Poets Society (1989)
