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What will your verse be?

Recently we had an Extended Leadership Council meeting within out Aersopace domain at work, as part of which a video clip was shown from the movie 'Dead Poets Society' - the dialogues towards the end of the clip were stirring and brought tears to my eyes. The following are the stunning dialogues which Robin Williams utters in the role of the teacher (got to watch this whole movie!) : 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 question of these  recurring,  Of the endless trains of the faithless,  of cities fill'd with the foolish...  What good amid these O me, O life?  Answer  That you are here--That life exists and  identity,  Tha