Dead Poets Quotes

• Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

  Robin Williams

  Believe, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Apple Ad Features Robin Williams’ 'Dead Poets Society' Speech" by Michelle Jones, www.valuewalk.com. August 12, 2014.

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

  Robin Williams

  Cute, Writing, Carpe Diem

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

  Robin Williams

  Meaningful, Real, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Boys, Dead Poets Society

  "Ficitonal character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

  Robin Williams

  Sad, Tired, Boys

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• When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

  Tom Schulman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", 1989.

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

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Different

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

  Robin Williams

  Mean Girls, Dead Poets Society, Bones

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

  Robin Williams

  Wise, Memorable, Learning

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Healing, Dead Poets Society, Teens

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dead Poets Society, Transcendentalism, Wilderness

  "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

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• The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Dead Poets Society

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Tom Schulman

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Engineering

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

  Tom Schulman

  Truth, Dead Poets Society, Feet

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• Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

  Tom Schulman

  Dead Poets Society, Rumor, Facts

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

  Antonin Artaud

  Reading, Way, Poet

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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