بریده‌های کتاب Dead Poets Society

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

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

"A woman is a cathedral, boys. Worship one at every chance you get."

"He cares about me! You don't!"

"I always thought education was learning to think for yourself."

"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."

"When I was little, I thought all parents automatically loved their kids. That's what my teachers told me. That's what I read in the books they gave me. That's what I believed. Well, my parents might have loved my brother, but they did not love me."

"What it demonstrates is how difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others. If any of you think you would have marched differently, then ask yourself why were you clapping. Lads, there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular. As Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference." "

"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."

"One day, hard as it to believe, each and every one of us is going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die!"

"Seize the day, Why does the poet write these lines?" "Because he's in a hurry?" "No, No, No! It's because we're food for worms, lads! Because we're only going to experience a limited number of springs, summers, and falls."

"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."