Oh captain, my captain!

The ending of the great film "Dead Poets Society".
jonnysays...

I just heard one of the greatest quotes about poetry last night in an interview with the new Poet Laureate, Charles Simic. The text is unfortunately not up, so I'll have to paraphrase. A student asked him "What good is poetry?", and for a moment Simic was taken aback, because it is a very serious and profound question. Another student raised her hand and Simic asked her what she thought about it. To which she responded, "The purpose of poetry is to remind us of our humanity."

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