“O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1865; quoted throughout Dead Poets Society
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
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The boys read this at every meeting, and it's the quiet thesis of the whole film. To live deliberately is to choose, not drift.
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