Dead Poets Society Quotes

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

“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. To quote from Whitman, "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?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― John Keating

“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“Oh captain my captain”
― Walt Whitman

“Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind.”
― Kleinbaum N.H., le cercle des poetes disparus""

“They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“medicine, law, banking- these are necessary to sustain life. but poetry, romance, love, beauty? these are what we stay alive for!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
What will your verse be?”
― N.H Kleinbaum

“It's god! He says we should have girls at Welton.”
― Charlie Dalton, Dead Poets Society

“One reads poetry because he is the member of the human race and the human race is filled with passion! Medicine, law, banking- these are the necessary components to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!”
― N.H Kleinbaum, Tom Schulman

“I was good, I was really good.”
― Neil Perry

“Laughing. Crying. Tumbling. Mumbling. Gotta do more. Gotta be more. Chaos screaming. Chaos dreaming. Gotta do more! Gotta be more!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“My own words assassinated me,
I don't compose sonnets anymore.”
― Afreen Rahat, Behind Her Eyes

“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 all noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― N.H Kleinbaum, Tom Schulman