N.H. Kleinbaum

Medicine, law, banking—these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

because no matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas have the power to change the world

“Seize the day.”

It’s because we’re food for worms, lads!” Keating shouted. “Because we’re only going to experience a limited number of springs, summers, and falls.

“‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,’”

“One day, hard as it is to believe, each and every one of us is going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die!”

“‘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.’”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.”

In this class you may refer to me as either Mr. Keating or ‘O Captain! My Captain!’”