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Dead Poets Society (1989)

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Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams. Set at the conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959,[2] it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. The film was critically acclaimed and was nominated for many awards.

The script was written by Tom Schulman, based on his life at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Filming took place at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware.

 

Memorable quotes for
Dead Poets Society (1989More at IMDbPro »

 John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Meeks: I’ll try anything once.
Dalton: Except sex.
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John Keating: They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? – - Carpe – - hear it? – - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
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John Keating: O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain my Captain.
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John Keating: 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?
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John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.
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John Keating: There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
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John Keating: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Nolan: At these boys’ age? Not on your life!
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Neil: For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I’m gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!
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John Keating: We’re not laughing at you – we’re laughing near you.
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Dalton: [answering phone] Welton Academy, hello. Yes he is, just a moment. Mr. Nolan, it’s for you. It’s God. He says we should have girls at Welton.
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John Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is – Mr. Anderson? Come on, are you a man or an amoeba?
[pause]
John Keating: Mr. Perry?
Neil: To communicate.
John Keating: No! To woo women!
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Neil: [quoting Henry David Thoreau] “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”
Dalton: I’ll second that.
Neil: “To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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McAllister: “Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I’ll show you a happy man.”
John Keating: “But only in their dreams can men be truly free. ‘Twas always thus, and always thus will be.”
McAllister: Tennyson?
John Keating: No, Keating.
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John Keating: Close your eyes, close your eyes! Close ‘em! Now, describe what you see.
Todd Anderson: Uh, I-I close my eyes.
John Keating: Yes.
Todd Anderson: Uh, and this image floats beside me.
John Keating: A sweaty-toothed madman.
Todd Anderson: A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
John Keating: Oh, that’s *excellent*! Now, give him action – make him do something!
Todd Anderson: H-His hands reach out and choke me.
John Keating: That’s it! Wonderful, wonderful!
Todd Anderson: And all the time he’s mumbling.
John Keating: What’s he mumbling?
Todd Anderson: Mumbling truth.
John Keating: Yeah, yes.
Todd Anderson: Truth like-like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
John Keating: [some of the class start to laugh] Forget them, forget them! Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket!
Todd Anderson: Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it’ll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it’ll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying t-to the moment we leave dying, it’ll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.
[long pause then class applauds]
John Keating: Don’t you forget this.
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Neil: [Neil finds Todd sitting alone on the roof] Hey!
Todd Anderson: Hey.
Neil: What’s going on?
Todd Anderson: Nothin’. Today’s my birthday.
Neil: Is today your birthday? Happy birthday!
Todd Anderson: Thanks.
Neil: What’d you get?
Todd Anderson: [indicating the desk set lying beside him] My parents gave me this.
Neil: Isn’t this the same desk set…
Todd Anderson: Yeah. Yeah, they gave me the same thing as last year.
Neil: Oh.
Todd Anderson: Oh.
Neil: Maybe they thought you needed another one.
Todd Anderson: Maybe they weren’t thinking about anything at all. The funny thing is about this is, I-I didn’t even like it the first time.
Neil: Todd, I think you’re underestimating the value of this desk set.
[He picks it up]
Neil: I mean, who would want a football or a baseball or…
Todd Anderson: Or a car.
Neil: Or a car, if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one? I mean, if-if I were ever going to buy a desk set, twice, I would probably buy this one. Both times! In fact, its shape is… it’s rather aerodynamic, isn’t it?
[walks to the edge of the roof]
Neil: You can feel it. This desk set wants to fly!
[hands it to Todd]
Neil: Todd? The world’s first unmanned flying desk set.
[Todd throws it off the roof - papers fly everywhere and things crash and clatter to the ground]
Neil: Oh my! Well, I wouldn’t worry. You’ll get another one next year.
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John Keating: Phone call from God. If it had been collect, that would have been daring!
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John Keating: Mr. Anderson! Don’t think that I don’t know that this assignment scares the hell out of you, you mole!
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Todd Anderson: Keating said that everybody took turns reading and I don’t wanna do that.
Neil: Gosh, you really have a problem with that don’t you?
Todd Anderson: N-No, I don’t have a problem, Neil. I just – I don’t wanna do it, okay!
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[Keating stands on his desk]
John Keating: Why do I stand up here? Anybody?
Dalton: To feel taller!
John Keating: No!
[Dings a bell with his foot]
John Keating: Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
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John Keating: I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling! I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face!
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Dr. Hagar: That wouldn’t be a radio in your lap would it Mr. Pitts?
Pitts: No sir, science experiment… radar!
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[after hearing "The Introduction to Poetry"]
John Keating: Excrement! That’s what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We’re not laying pipe! We’re talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? “I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can’t dance to it!”
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[about joining the DPS]
Dalton: It’ll help you get Chris!
Knox: Yeah? How?
Dalton: Women swoon!
[Dalton rushes off to class]
Knox: But why do they swoon?
[runs after Dalton]
Knox: Charlie, tell me why they swoon!
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John Keating: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!
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John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go,
[imitating a goat]
John Keating: “that’s baaaaad.” Robert Frost said, “Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
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John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.
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Todd Anderson: [standing on his desk] Oh captain, my captain.
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Neil: So what are you going to do? Charlie?
Dalton: Damn it Neil, the name is Nuwanda.
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[last lines]
John Keating: Thank you, boys. Thank you.
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John Keating: Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth.
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John Keating: This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.
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Knox: C’mon, Chris, just give me one chance. If you don’t like me after tonight I’ll stay away forever.
Chris Noel: Uh-huh.
Knox: I promise. Dead Poets Honor. You come with me tonight and then if you don’t wanna see me again I swear I’ll bow out.
Chris Noel: You know what would happen if Chet found out?
Knox: He won’t know anything. We’ll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it’s over.
Chris Noel: And I suppose you would promise that this would be the end of it.
Knox: Dead Poets Honor.
Chris Noel: What is that?
Knox: My word.
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Neil Perry: I just talked to my father. He’s making me quit the play at Henley Hall. Acting’s everything to me. I- But he doesn’t know! He- I can see his point; we’re not a rich family, like Charlie’s. We- But he’s planning the rest of my life for me, and I- He’s never asked me what I want!
John Keating: Have you ever told your father what you just told me? About your passion for acting? You ever showed him that?
Neil Perry: I can’t.
John Keating: Why not?
Neil Perry: I can’t talk to him this way.
John Keating: Then you’re acting for him, too. You’re playing the part of the dutiful son. Now, I know this sounds impossible, but you have to talk to him. You have to show him who you are, what your heart is!
Neil Perry: I know what he’ll say! He’ll tell me that acting’s a whim and I should forget it. They’re counting on me; he’ll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good.
John Keating: You are not an indentured servant! It’s not a whim for you, you prove it to him by your conviction and your passion! You show that to him, and if he still doesn’t believe you – well, by then, you’ll be out of school and can do anything you want.
Neil Perry: No. What about the play? The show’s tomorrow night!
John Keating: Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night.
Neil Perry: Isn’t there an easier way?
John Keating: No.
Neil Perry: [laughs] I’m trapped!
John Keating: No you’re not.
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[Neil's father has just driven him home from his performance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."]
Mr. Perry: We’re trying very hard to understand why it is that you insist on defying us. Whatever the reason, we’re not gonna let you ruin your life. Tomorrow I’m withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braighton Military School. You’re going to Harvard, and you’re gonna be a doctor.
Neil Perry: But, that’s ten more years! Father, that’s a *lifetime*!
Mr. Perry: Oh, stop it! Don’t be so dramatic! You make it sound like a prison term! You don’t understand, Neil! You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of, and I am not going to let you waste them!
Neil Perry: I’ve got to tell you what I feel!
Mrs. Perry: We’ve been so worried about you!
Mr. Perry: *What*? What? Tell me what you feel! What is it? Is it more of this, this *acting* business? Because you can forget that! What?
Neil Perry: [pauses] Nothing.
Mr. Perry: [pauses] Nothing? Well, then, let’s go to bed.
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Meeks: Me and Pitts are working on a hi-fi system. It shouldn’t be that hard to, uh, to put together.
Pitts: Yeah… Uh, I might be going to Yale… Uh, but I might not.
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Gloria: Don’t you guys miss having girls around here?
MeeksPitts: Yeah.
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Nolan: Free thinkers at 17?
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John Keating: Mr. Pitts, would you open your hymnal to page 542 and read the first stanza of the poem you find there.
Pitts: [reading the poem title] “To the Virgins To Make Much of Time”?
John Keating: Yes, that’s the one. Somewhat appropriate, isn’t it?
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Hopkins: [reading his poem] “The cat sat on the mat”
John Keating: Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins. You have the first poem to ever have a negative score on the Pritchard scale.
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[the students are climbing onto Keating's desk to see a new perspective]
John Keating: Now, don’t just walk off the edge like lemmings! Look around you!
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Neil: I was good. I was really good.
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Dalton: I’m exercising the right not to walk.
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Neil: If I don’t ask him, at least I won’t be disobeying him.
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Todd Anderson: [talking about people listening to him] The point is, that there’s nothing you can do about it. So you can just butt out. I can take care of myself just fine. Alright?
Neil: [long pause] No.
Todd Anderson: What do you mean ‘no’?
Neil: [grinning] No!
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Neil: [talking angrily to Todd] You’re in the club! Being in the club means being stirred up by things! You look about as stirred up as a cesspool!
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John Keating: [the class hesitates to rip out the introduction page] It’s not the Bible, you’re not gonna go to Hell for this.
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Chet Danburry: Next time I see you, you die.
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Richard Cameron: Hey Neal, business as usual huh? I heard you got the new kid. He looks like a stiff!
[laughs a little and when Todd the new kid appears he gets embarrassed]
Richard Cameron: Oops!
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Richard Cameron: You can’t save Keating, but you can save yourselves!
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Nolan: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars?
Crowd: Tradition. Honor. Discipline. Excellence.
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Dalton: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars?
DaltonMeeksNeilKnoxTodd Anderson: Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement.
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Pitts: Too bad.
Knox: It’s worse than “Too bad,” Pittsie. It’s a tragedy. A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk.
Pitts: All the good ones go for jerks. You know that.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012
Categories: 's p r i t e s' 2013, P O E T S
Tags: Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams
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Nek Chand

Posted: December 5th, 2011
Categories: 's p r i t e s' 2013, inspiration, P O E T S
Tags: Nek Chand, sprites 2013
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A Letter from Dea A. W. on Bali Creative Festival 2011

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broadcast from http://rosepandanwangi.tumblr.com/

Posted: December 3rd, 2011
Categories: 's p r i t e s' 2013, my rebelution, P O E T S
Tags: Bali Creative Festival, Dea Aulia WidyaEvan
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A LETTER from THE OUTCAST

dengan hormat,

Terima kasih,pak agung, sudah memberikan saya kesempatan dan waktu untuk melanjutkan studi saya yang sangat membosankan, terima kasih juga untuk kesempatannya untuk bisa bergabung dengan Bale Legend Crew. Sebenarnya, dengan sangat berat hati harus meninggalkan kantor untuk kembali ke kampus,(meskipun dalam waktu 2 bulan), tempat yang sangat asing untuk saya. Tapi, karena desakan dan tanggung jawab kepada orang tua, mau tidak mau saya harus menuruti keinginan mereka, untuk “membayar hutang” orang tua.

Ada banyak hal yang saya dapatkan jauh sebelum saya bergabung dengan team Bale Legend, sejak pertama kali saya mengenal seorang arsitek besar yang pernah dimiliki oleh Negeri ini………beliau mengajarkan bagaimana menjadi diri sendiri, mengajarkan bagaimana mencari jalan untuk mengetahui siapa diri saya sebenarnya………mengajarkan saya tentang sebuah makna dari “Turbulensi”, “rebelution”….dan banyak lagi……….kampus tidak mampu mengajarkan itu, tempat dimana saya tidak menemukan dunia saya, tempat yang mengganggap saya mahluk asing. Sekarang akhirnya mimpi saya menjadi kenyataan, saya bisa bergabung dengan team beliau, Anak Agung Yoka Sara.(saya sangat mengagumi beliau)

Ada satu tulisan yang pernah saya baca, dan saya tidak bosan untuk membacanya setiap hari………..satu tulisan yang mengajarkan kita untuk memilih berbeda dari yang lainnya…….(semoga Pak Agung menyukainya )

Salju Gurun

Di Hamparan gurun yang seragam, jangan lagi menjadi butiran pasir.

Sekalipun nyaman engkau di tengah himpitan sesamamu, tak akan ada yang tahu jika kau melayang hilang

Di lingkungan gurun yang serba serupa, untuk apa lagi menjadi kaktus.

Sekalipun hijau warnamu, engkau tersebar dimana-mana. Tak ada yang menangis rindu jika kau mati layu.

Di lansekap gurun yang mahaluas, lebih baik tidak menjadi oase.

Sekalipun rasanya kau sendiri, burung yang tinggi akan melihat kembaranmu di sana-sini.

Di tengah gurun yang tertebak, jadilah salju yang abadi.

Embun pagi tak akan kalahkan dinginmu, angin malam akan menggigil ketika melawatimu, oase akan jengah dan kaktuspun terperangah.

Semua butir pasir akan tahu jika kau pergi, atau sekedar bergerak dua inci.

Dan setiap senti gurun akan terinspirasi karena kau berani beku dalam neraka, kau berani putih meski sendiri, karena kau….berbeda

(excerpt from : Filosofi Kopi,by Dewi Lestari)

DON’T LET IT SHOW

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Alan Parsons Project

Lead Vocal: Dave Townsend

If it’s getting harder to face every day
Don’t let it show, don’t let it show
Though it’s getting harder to take what they say
Just let it go, just let it go

And if it hurts when they mention my name
Say you don’t know me
And if it helps when they say I’m to blame
Say you don’t own me

Even if it’s taking the easy way out
Keep it inside of you
Don’t give in
Don’t tell them anything
Don’t let it
Don’t let it show

Even though you know it’s the wrong thing to say
Say you don’t care, say you don’t care
Even if you want to believe there’s a way
I won’t be there, I won’t be there

But if you smile when they mention my name
They’ll never know you
And if you laugh when they say I’m to blame
They’ll never own you

Even if you feel you’ve got nothing to hide
Keep it inside of you
Don’t give in
Don’t tell them anything
Don’t let it
Don’t let it show

Posted: May 10th, 2009
Categories: my words, P O E T S
Tags: Alan Parsons Project
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You Might Recall

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 What was it you said to me
Back in the days when things looked fine
’bout how we would be together
Until we left the earth behind
Oh, it’s funny how things can change
Cause there was a time I thought I’d be the one
Who’d leave and start again
But now I’d stay forever
Ooh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water
Just sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn’t care, you ought a
Ah, the end of a life
Or maybe when you’re older, and you’re thinking back
You might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

 So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are

Everyday seems summertime
The river flow with wine
Ooh when you were here with me
I wish we’d stayed that way forever

Oh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water
Just sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn’t care, you ought a
Ah, the end of a life
Or maybe when you’re older, and you’re thinking back
Well you might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are

Oh my hopes were as the leaves upon the water
Ah, sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn’t care, you ought a
Oh, the end of a life
And maybe when you’re older, and you’re thinking back
Oh, you might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are


Posted: May 9th, 2009
Categories: my words, P O E T S
Tags: genesis, Three Side Live, You Might Recall
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Space – poem by Nagarjuna, 2nd Century

Space

nagarjuna_sm by Nagarjuna
(150? – 250?) Timeline English version by
Stephen BatchelorOriginal Language
Sanskrit 

Buddhist
2nd Century

 

No trace of space
Is there before
The absence of obstruction
Which describes it.

With no obstruction,
How can there be
Absence of obstruction?
Who distinguishes between them?

Space is not obstruction
Or an absence of it,
Nor is it a description
Or something to describe.

Fluidity and heat,
Energy and gravity
Are just like space.

In seeing things
To be or not to be
Fools fail to see
A world at ease.

 

 source: www.Poetry-Chaikana.com

Posted: May 4th, 2009
Categories: influenced, inspiration, P O E T S
Tags: Nagarjuna, Poetry-Chaikana, Space
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Ode for The TRA, by Wara Urwasi

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wara-urwasi

 

 

 

 

 

Awal

inilah lembar sebuah kehidupan yang ingin kukisah padamu

sejarah sederhana tentang penciptaan

berikut deru liku dan harapan

jika bisa, ingin kucerita saja lewat simfoni,  namun ia tak cukup menafsir

kekuatan, ketekunan pun keindahan para penciptaku kala itu

yang gairah bengalnya anugerahiku untuk lahir

betapa kini aku bagai gadis molek cantik

berdiri di panggung dunia

bukan hanya kumpulan tanah dan batu

memecah pelan di bawah matari terik

aku begitu hidup,

karena pikir manusia hidupkanku

hingga tercipta tarian ini dalam diam

maka mari berjalan,

di antara keteguhan musim padi, hingga kedalaman hutan muda

beserta kebaikan alam

sebab kubangun rumah ini penuh puisi,

dimana kau dapat bertandang

dimana ku bisa menebar sayang

bukalah mata dan pikirmu

aku mengundangmu

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Semesta Padi

mari berjalan di hangat canggu tua,

dimana angin berbau padi dan ombak

musim kehangatan dari barat telah datang kemari,

membawa kapal dan nahkodanya berlabuh di perutku

hinggap di rasa, kami bagai putih salju

berbaring di bawah bintang dalam kubah raksasa ini

kemudian saling menghidupi, agar panjang usia masing-masing

sang tani adalah pangeranku,

sementara langit menjagai desah keringatnya.

sesaat lalu bayang-bayang membangunkanku dari semesta

sungai benamkanku makin ke dalam

dedaunan lingkarkan akarnya ke tubuhku

Ia, sang ibu membaptisku di kelahiran ulang

sebab telah cukup tugasku kala ini

yang dijanjikan akan datang, menjalani takdirnya di tanahku

kala itu, penciptaan telah diijinkan.

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Lagu Anak Bumi

malam ini perkenankan kucium jari Mu

sebab ibu bilang, Kau yang melahirkanku lewat rahimnya.

tubuhku seperti tiang, dengan bendera sebagai jubahnya.

ibu bilang, dengan ini manusia menghormatiku

 

malam ini izinkan aku memujaMu, seperti moyangku dulu berlutut

pada matahari atau keabadian batu.

maka kutengadahkan langit, hingga ku jauh dari kelaparan senja.

tak ingin mati dengan wajah gesang.


 

Mimpi Tuan Tanah

aku ingin tidur, sedikit

sebab lelah menjadi permata

di dunia tanpa lengang

dan tak habis berpikir lebih pintar

 

agar  saat aku bangun nantinya

ada  suatu kehendak

terbentuk dari matahari dan

bening keinginan di kepalaku

 

hingga kuacungkan tanganku

ke arah pemilik tanah

yang ingin kumiliki

sisi yang demikian terang

yang paginya ditempeli embun

lalu perlahan menghangat

 

yang aku bisa tidur dalam kabin rumputnya

sembari tetap menghitung bintang-bintang

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Kedatangan

aku bisa mendengar langkahmu, teman

di jalan setapak yang kutempa

untuk mereka, anak-anak yang sering berdoa padaku

 aku tahu segala rahasia

dan yang tengah kau cari

 

kusentuh kau dengan nafasku,

kuhadirkan ketelanjangan dan kejujuran

matahari yang hangat, dan malam yang beku

segenap tarian di keluasan ruang

 telah terbacakah?

 

lalu kutangkap matamu

hingga kita bersetubuh sejenak

dalam kerapuhan kuberi kekuatan

 telah yakinkah kau?

 

maka kutetapkan saja, untuk mengkutimu

mempercayakan arah angin dan matahari, dan semua hidangan ini

 

kuberikan padamu, kesempatan

 

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Sketsa 1: Titik Mula

hanya pria yang teguh yang mampu,

yang pikirnya begitu muda dalam kebijaksanaan usia

ia temanku, yang kupercaya untuk mencipta

hingga hatiku berdegup-degup dibuatnya

apa yang kan datang, dalam kelahiranku berikutnya?

dalam titik, garis dan bidang-bidang

yang berkitaran

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“satu garis kutoreh jadi aksis, antara pandangku dengan keberadaanmu

dua lengkung bertemu membuka ruang dari kedatangan

hingga kau lihat keluasan hutan muda, yang merentang tangannya padamu

bawa kakimu melangkah ke lingkar tengah, ruang pertemuan

dua garis melingkupi pandangmu

mengantarmu pada sekuen harmoni

seperti lajur dari bawah kakimu ke arah tingginya pikir

karena begitu luas dan dalamnya sekeliling

satu garis untuk menikmatimu

dari tempat yang semestinya

lalu biarkan keseluruhannya tersembunyi

agar satu ia dengan kebesaranNya”

 

Sketsa  2: Benang Merah

bagaimana kabarmu, kawan?

lihat aku masih menari disini

 

aku menghentak-hentak mengikut gerakmu

mengalirlah, hingga tak terbendung dan tumpah

 

bisa kulihat perjalanan itu

yang membingkai keadaan

ke dalam ruang

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bisa kurasa, naskah kejadian yang kau lukis di perutku

jembatan pengantar menuju kelegaan

dan kenyamanan rumah

dimana satu keluarga dan teman bisa bercerita

di bawah langit,

dimana kau biarkanku jadi kubah dan selimut

yang dipandangi dan memeluk mereka

 

ruang tak berdinding, hanya berbingkai

ruang yang mendongak langit, namun menghormati

dimana bisa kutarikan bayang-bayang cahaya

 

rumahku terbuka untuk melihat

rumahku terbuka untuk mendengar

rasa-rasakanlah kebebasan pikir


Sketsa 3: Fragmen Ruang

aku tumbuh di musim yang tropik

yang hangat gemerlap

di tengah gerimis dan lagu anak

sungguh kubutuh ruang tidur beratap

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maka ia kawanku ini, menari lagi

lewat jarinya, menghadirkan wujud

membuatku tergambarkan di mata

satu untuk ungkapan selamat datang

yang mengantarmu ke rumah, mempertemukan cahaya

satu yang membingkai pandangmu

menggoda kagum di antara kerendahatian,

merefleksikan semua ruang di sekeliling

dan ruang-ruang kecil

tempatmu berjalan lewat

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ada anjungan pengantar tidur

katanya sembari mimpi,

mari jujur pada nurani

mari berdekap dengan diri

sembari mengagumi ketelanjanganmu

 

lalu bertemulah klimaks

tempat menghening sesungguhnya

 

demikian kawanku mengabadikan segala khayal,

hingga sang bayi terlahir

pun jadi milik semesta

 

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Instalasi Tiga Dimensi

bentuk-bentuk hadir

mulai bersama warna dan memberi rasa

tiada lagi mencari, hanya melengkapi

agar ia menjadi sosok, bukan goresan

 

aku bermain bersama kabel-kabel digital

alam artifisial

bersama matahari dan ukuran waktu

mencoba jadikannya kekal

 

sebelum adanya batasan eksplorasi

mencari cara membangun semuanya

dari dasar,

rumahku telah berdiri

hingga kau bisa melihatnya dari segala pandang

when imagination is free,
knowledge and know how will follow

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Spektrum Melodi

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mari nyanyi tentang pelangi

yang keping-kepingnya ingin kupetik,

kutanam di rumah, memainkannya dalam liturgy

 

dan bila kupilah-pilah

mungkin yang menghangatkan, atau membuat sejuk

yang kekuatannya merefleksi teka-teki alam

matahari siang bulan malam, jatuh di tubuhnya

sebab warna mereka adalah energi

yang menguasaimu atas ruang

bahkan menyelimuti pikir

ia pun menjadi gairah akan tanah, air, udara

yang menentukan kehendakmu, seketika

 

maka kini biarlah warna-warna ini

yang mengatasi binari

 

biar menyatu ia di atas semua bidang

hingga kau tersenyum penuh pesona

saat sinarnya jatuh di pantul cahaya

pada segala musim, segala ruang

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Elemen Penciptaan

yang menjadi tiang-tiang itu, temanku

adalah kayu tua

yang menahan beban untuk kita

dan menanda cuaca di tanah ini

 

batu-batu itu

berasal dari kedalaman

jadi biar warna dan rasanya saja yang bicara padamu

karena bila kupaksakan gambaranku

maka ia tak kan sampai ke hatimu

 

lalu ditiap jendela dan pintu

kugantungkan dinding yang bening

biar alam bisa melukis di kanvasnya

melembutkan mata kita penuh suka

 

di tempatmu menginjak,

kuberi satu yang lembut

dan berkilau, hingga kau rasa berjalan di pualam

tiada derak bergema

 

hingga kau dapat terlupa

tengah di bawah langit

atau berhangat dalam ruangkah,

 

mari sentuh tiap fragmen tubuhku, teman

meliuk bagai relief warna yang dicipta artisku

 

Sketsa  4: Jalan Menuju

aku membuat gambar ini

agar kita bisa membangunnya

tingkat demi tingkat

dan supaya lakon yang lain

bisa mulai menaruh hitungannya

lewat harga dan kubik

jadi kubuat hingga sekecil-kecilnya,

sungguh, demi pekerja itu

menjembatani gagasan dan tindakan

kita berjalan, mengukur panjang

atau mendaki mencari tinggi

lalu nanti kubuat drama,

mengatur fragmen masing-masing

sebab bahwa semua harus tercapai, dan terlihat

adalah untuk kemudahan

hingga rancangan tersajikan, dan terbaca mereka

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