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el club de los poetas muertos

No olviden que a pesar de todo lo que les digan, las palabras y las ideas pueden cambiar el mundo (...). Les contaré un secreto: no leemos y escribimos poesía porque es bonita. Leemos y escribimos poesía porque pertenecemos a la raza humana; y la raza humana está llena de pasión. La medicina, el derecho, el comercio, la ingeniería... son carreras nobles y necesarias para dignificar la vida humana. Pero la poesía, la belleza, el romanticismo, el amor son cosas que nos mantienen vivos.

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?