Poets Society Quotes

#1. The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

David Walton

#2. Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Tom Schulman

#3. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

#4. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Russell Brand

#5. The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

#6. When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Russell Tovey

#7. Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

Shane Claiborne

#8. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Robin Williams

#9. There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.

Paul Auster

#10. Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Robin Williams

#11. Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.

Marcel Proust

#12. We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Robin Williams

#13. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Tom Schulman

#14. Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Robin Williams

#15. Oh captain my captain

Walt Whitman

#16. Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

Richard Sennett

#17. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

#18. We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

Tom Robbins

#19. There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Sharon Olds

#20. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

Kenneth Minogue

#21. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#22. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Tom Schulman

#23. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Robin Williams

#24. Poets sing our human music for us.

Carol Ann Duffy

#25. 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.

Robin Williams

#26. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#27. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Robin Williams

#28. Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

John Fogarty

#29. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Tom Schulman

#30. Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.

Bei Dao

#31. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau