Apple has launched a new iPad advert featuring the voice of Robin Williams who reprises one of his most famous speeches from Dead Poet’s Society.
The ad shows how the firm’s tablet can be used in a range of pursuits including filmmaking, mountaineering, SCUBA diving and music.
Here’s the full text of Williams’ speech:
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?