Dead poets society quotes

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

O Captain! My Captain!

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; and the same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying

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

Just when you think you know something, you have to look at in another way. Even thought it may seem silly or wrong, you must try.

Now we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique your own. Even thought others may think them odd or unpopular. Even thought the herd may go, "That's ba-a-a-a-ad"

I went to the woods because I whised to live, deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and no, when I came to die, discover that i had not lived.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had to come to die, discover that I had not lived"

To strive, to seek, to find, and not yo yield.

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes ando starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes

"I was good, I was really good"

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinery

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

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.

Robert Frost said "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. I want you to find your own walk right now. your own way of striding, pacing any direction. Anything you want, whether it's proud, whether it's silly, anything.

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

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus, and always thus will be

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too

Life Is too important to be taken seriously

Yes, I'm a dreamer. For a dreamer Is the one who can only find his way by moonlight; and his punishment Is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

Education Is and admirable thing, but It Is well to remember from time to time that nothing that Is worth knowing can be taught

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

To live Is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, is all.