Dead Poets Society

Its a beautiful movie. Recommended for all helpless romantics(in the poetic sense)!

huh .... this has inspired me .... feel good hota hai ...  

Favorite Quotes:(starred the real good ones)

Meeks: I'll try anything once. 
Dalton: Except sex. 

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***John Keating: 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? 

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***John Keating: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. 

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***Dalton: [answering phone] Welton Academy, hello. Yes he is, just a moment. Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton. (XD)

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John Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is - Mr. Anderson? Come on, are you a man or an amoeba? 
[pause] 
John Keating: Mr. Perry? 
Neil: To communicate. 
John Keating: No! To woo women! _

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***Neil: [quoting Henry David Thoreau] "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." 
Dalton: I'll second that. 
Neil: "To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived." 

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McAllister: "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man." 
John Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be." 

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***John Keating: We all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own,  even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, 

[imitating a goat] "that's baaaaad." 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." 

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John Keating: Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? "I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can't dance to it!" 

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***John Keating: Boys, 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. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

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John Keating: Mr. Pitts, would you open your hymnal to page 542 and read the first stanza of the poem you find there. 
Pitts: [reading the poem title] "To the Virgins To Make Much of Time"? 
John Keating: Yes, that's the one. Somewhat appropriate, isn't it? 

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