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Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. -- Tom Schulman
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
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
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
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
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
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
Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet. -- Jay-Z
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. -- Antonin Artaud
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. -- Roger Zelazny
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. -- T. S. Eliot
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. -- Antonin Artaud
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever. -- Cate Marvin
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me. -- Stephen Chbosky
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill? -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And mighty poets in their misery dead. -- William Wordsworth
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. -- Marguerite Young
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. -- Gregory Orr
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. -- David Pajo
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -- Robert Morgan
The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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