Graduated 5/3/2011
"We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of
the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And
medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are
what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the
questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless...
of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?"
Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the
powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful
play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
From the movie Dead Poets Society
