“There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” — John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way.” — John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” — John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.” — John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” — John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” — Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” — Robert Frost · Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 1916