“We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.”
Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls

“Son, I've played sick, drunk, divorced, and on the run. Bad Blake hasn't missed a goddamn show in his whole fucking life.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake

At the temple, there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read 'Loss', only feel it.
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“All those poets, on all those worlds; the ones who spoke of battle being such an unsightly thing? They never stood here.”
Colm Feore - Lord Marshal

“You're a poet, not a rock star.”

Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson