I'm in love with Dead Poets Society.
"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."
-John Keating [played by Robin Williams], Dead Poets Society
I'm in love with poetry.
"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."
-Walt Whitman
Also, I'm in love with Edgar Allan Poe.
"What of it there remained I will not attempt to define, or even to describe; yet all was not lost. In the deepest slumber - no! In delirium - no! In a swoon - no! In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost."
-Edgar Allan Poe; The Pit and the Pendulum
No. Mussa on herännyt jo kauan nukkunut intohimo runoutta ja kirjallisuutta kohtaan. Vapise maailma. Mutta. Tunnen suunnatonta mielenkiintoa Franz Kafkan, Walt Whitmanin ja Charles Baudelairen kirjallisia tuotoksia kohtaan. Mutta missä välissä sitä ehtisi lukea mitään muuta kuin koulukirjoja? Aivan. Ei ehdi.
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life
to put to rout all that was not life;
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"
-Henry David Thoreau
