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  • I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

    Source: www.redividerjournal.org
  • But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  • 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.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

    Movie   Wise   Latin  
    Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press
  • I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

    Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”
  • I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

    Reading   Way   Poet  
    Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press
  • No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

    Appreciation   Art   Poet  
    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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 (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

    "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
  • If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

    Source: www.buzzfeed.com
  • Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  • Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

    Night   Skulls   Brain  
    Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173
  • The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

  • Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

    Beautiful   Reading   May  
    Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press
  • It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.

    "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’" by Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.
  • The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

    "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.
  • When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

    Age   Rebel   Details  
    "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.
  • 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 (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing
  • When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", 1989.
  • No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

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

    Sad   Tired   Boys  
  • What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

    "Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ Divine Madness Will No Longer Disrupt the Sadness of the World". The Guardian Opinion Page, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.
  • O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

    Fall   Crowns   Errands  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation
  • The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

    Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing
  • Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

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