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"'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!"