بریده‌های کتاب Dead Poets Society

"A penny for your thoughts?" "Not even worth that much,"

"Have no fear, you will learn what this school wants you to learn in my class; however, if I do my job properly, you will also learn a great deal more. For example, you will learn to savor language and words because no matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas have the power to change the world."

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

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."

"And don't limit poetry to the word. Poetry can be found in music, a photograph, in the way a meal is prepared – anything with the stuff of revelation in it. It can exist in the most everyday things but it must never, never be ordinary."

"Teach me to love? Go teach thyself more wit: I chief professor am of it. The god of love, If such a thing there be, May learn to love from me."

"And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"This is battle, boys. War! You are souls at a critical juncture. Either you will succumb to the will of academic hoi polloi, and the fruit will die on the vine – or you will triumph as individuals."

"You know what Dad called me when I was growing up? 'Five ninety-eight.' That's what all the chemicals in the human body would be worth if you bottled them raw and sold them. He told me that was all I'd ever be worth unless I worked every day to improve myself. Five ninety-eight."

"I can't just forget her, Pitts. And I certainly can't think about math!" "Sure you can. You're off on a tangent – so you're halfway into trig already!"

"But of course my father wouldn't let me." "And now he will?" "Hell, no, but that's not the point. The point is that for the first time in my whole life I know what I want, and for the first time I'm gonna do it whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!"

"They're not that different than any of you, are they? Hope in their eyes, just like yours. They believe themselves destined for wonderful things, just like many of you. Well, where are those smiles now, boys? What of the hope?"

"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse... What will your verse be?"

"We'll get through. Somehow we always do."

"I feel like I've never been alive. For years, I've been risking nothing. I have no idea what I am or what I want to do."

"What did the name mean? Did you only read dead poets?" "All poetry was acceptable, Mr. Perry. The name simply referred to the fact that, to join the organization, you had to be dead."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"If you're sure about something, force yourself to think about it another way, even if you know it's wrong or silly. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think."

"One reads poetry because he is a member of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion! Medicine , law, banking – these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!"

"Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary."