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The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. — Robin Williams

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

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. — Michael S. Harper

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you — Robin Williams

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. — Robin Williams

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. — Anais Nin

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities. — Christian Wiman

No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table. — Steven Erikson

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. — Robin Williams

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

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

If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. — Marguerite Young

There's no deodorant like success. — Elizabeth Taylor

Only a poet can translate for the dead. — Marty Rubin

And mighty poets in their misery dead. — William Wordsworth

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. — Thomas Carlyle

When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think. — N.H. Kleinbaum

The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare. — China Mieville

...poets generally write as if they were dead. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. — Peleg Top

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. — Robin Williams

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts. — Tom Schulman

Complete control can be the death of a work. — Andy Goldsworthy

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — N.H. Kleinbaum

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

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine. — Holly Black

Think with your whole body. — Taisen Deshimaru

What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them? — Michael Schiefelbein

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). — Henry David Thoreau

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think — Tom Schulman

Women can't hold property anymore, she said. It's a new law. — Margaret Atwood

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr

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

As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. — Tom Schulman

Oh captain my captain — Walt Whitman

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