Carpe diem its allure. This is not the original sense of the phrase as used by Horace. In modern English, the expression "YOLO", meaning "you only live once", expresses a similar sentiment. In the 1989 American film "Dead Poets Society", the English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, famously says: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Later, this line was voted as the 95th greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute. The television series "Community" later satirized the film with the recurring character of Professor Whitman, a comedically eccentric version of Williams' character who uses "Carpe
Carpe diem Carpe diem is the second-person singular present active imperative of "carpō" "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". "Diem" is the accusative of "dies" "day". A more literal translation of would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is, enjoy the moment. Text from "Odes" : Perhaps the first written expression of the concept is the advice given by Siduri to Gilgamesh, telling him to forgo his mourning and embrace life although some scholars see it as simply urging Gilgamesh to abandon his mourning, "reversing the liminal rituals of mourning and