“That you are here, that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” — Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1855; quoted by Keating
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying.” — Robert Herrick · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 1648; quoted by Keating
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” — Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854; recited by the Dead Poets Society club
“O Captain! My Captain!” — Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1865; quoted throughout Dead Poets Society