“- Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
- Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.”
James Corden - Timms
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Jocelyn: I demand poetry, and when I want it, and I want it now.
- William Thatcher: Your breasts... they're beneath your throat.”
Heath Ledger - Jocelyn
Shannyn Sossamon - William Thatcher

“If food is the prose of poetry, then lights are its poetry. I like that. If music were the food of love, play on. I'm going out of my mind.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Allison

“Before this war began, many of my regiment had never seen a Negro. Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed. We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.”
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“Respect! I wrote a haiku about respect. And the moon!”
Adrienne Shelly - Stephanie