Jerkface Jones

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. To quote from Whitman, "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."

That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

What will your verse be?

Dead Poets Society