What do the dead poets say about somebody like me?

All of them, and not a dead poet in the bunch.

Half the fun turns out to be the marriages of living with dead poets.

The dead poet may have had good aesthetic reasons for keeping some of his work to himself.

A dead poet's only chance of publication is an anthology.

The dead poet becomes the doctor's only chance for a human connection as he reaches to her across the boundaries of death.

"Dead Poets Society," in fact, is out of touch with any particular time at all.

Are poets ever dead, only sentimentally - We cannot telephone each other or touch.

That anything was preserved at all, he said, is due only to Russia's reverence for its dead poets.

Not to the dear departed dead poets, I hope.