Status Updates From Le Cercle Des Poètes Disparus

"'Carpe Diem,' even if it kills me."

"Stretch it, pull it, it will never cover any of us."
"Go on!" Keating said.
"Kick at it, beat at it, it will never be enough…From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it will cover just your head as you wail and cry and scream!"

"Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold!"

"Mr. Anderson believes that everything he has inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Correct, Todd? Isn't that your fear?
Then today we will see that what is inside of you is worth a great deal."

“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."

"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.“

“deal with the important things in life-love, beauty, truth, justice.”

"For me, the most important thing in all sport is the way other human beings can push us to excel."

"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."

“I'm so in love, I feel like I'm going to die!"

"Listen, Neil, I appreciate your interest in me but I'm not like you. When you say things, people pay atten-tion. People follow you. I'm not like that!"
"Why not? Don't you think you could be?"
"No! Oh, I don't know. I'll probably never know."

"Nothing’s impossible”

"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. Thoreau said, 'Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.' Why be resigned to that? Risk walking new ground"

"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."

All of the boys, except for Todd Anderson, walked to the front of the room

"I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to look at things differently. The world looks different from up here. If you don't believe it, stand up here and try it. All of you. Take turns."

"How do we strip ourselves of prejudices, habits, influences? The answer, my dear lads, is that we must constantly endeavor to find a new point of view."

"Language was invented for one reason, boys—"
"To communicate?"
"No”
"No. To woo women. And, in that endeavor, laziness will not do."