Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
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.
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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.
Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
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