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“You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“He paced in front of the class. "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. By all means, write about the sky or a girl's smile, but when you do, let your poetry conjure up salvation day, doomsday, any day. I don't care, as long as it enlightens us, thrills us and—if it's inspired—makes us feel a bit immortal.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“People don’t see things and hear things as objectively as they might think. The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
“But the only reason people thought I had everything is because I had all the things you can see. I had none of the things you can’t.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
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