Dead Poets Society

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

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

"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."

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

"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

"Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain! My Captain!"

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

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

"Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is… to woo women."

"The human race is filled with passion."

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

"Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way."

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

"When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think."

"What will your verse be?"

"The difficulty of maintaining the belief in oneself in a world which conspires to make you like everyone else."

"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone."

"We are not laughing at you, we are laughing near you."

"I’m going to act."

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of 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."

"And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.""

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

"They're not that different from you, are they?"

"They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you."

"Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable?"

"Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils."

"He was born with his foot in his mouth."

"You know me, always taking on too much."

"Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr."

"Well just don't tell me how to talk to my father."

"I don't give a damn about any of it."

"Hey, you coming to the study group tonight?"

"To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech."

"Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective."

"Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance."

"And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatest becomes a relatively simple matter."