Poetry quotes

“- Constance Petersen: I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
- Anthony Edwardes: Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
- Constance Petersen: They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Edward Fielding - Dr. Anthony Edwardes

“- Sir Percy Blakeney: The pretty thing rhymes in four places, don't you see? And if a rhyme rhymes, it makes a poem, if you follow me.
- The Prince Regent: As if it were crystal clear... my dear!”

Anthony Andrews - Sir Percy Blakeney
Julian Fellowes - The Prince Regent

When I think of her, of Elisa, the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love hundreds of years ago. "Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere".
Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Harry Sanborn: Some people consider rap poetry.
- Erica Barry: C'mon, how many words can you rhyme with bitch?”
Jack Nicholson - Harry Sanborn
Diane Keaton - Erica Barry

- I'm Only Creative When I Smoke Smoker: Would you like to hear some of my poetry?
- Thurgood Jenkins: Not really, no.
- I'm Only Creative When I Smoke Smoker: You really should. "I have killed. I have helped kill. I have killed part of myself. I cannot change this. I... I must seek Buddha. I must seek Christ".
- Thurgood Jenkins: You must seek... (continue) (continue reading)
Janeane Garofalo - I'm Only Creative When I Smoke Smoker
Dave Chappelle - Thurgood Jenkins

- Grandma: Why are your pants so low?
- Tyler: I rap.
- Daughter: It's a form of modern poetry... if you give him a topic, he'll extemporaneously rhyme on the subject. His stage nom de plume is "T-Diamond Stylus." Go ahead, Nana, give him anything!
Deanna Dunagan - Nana
Ed Oxenbould - Tyler
Olivia DeJonge - Becca

- Hector: "Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; enough their simple loveliness for me". Keats.
- Crowther: Oh! We won't be examined on that, though, will we, sir?
- Hector: Keats?
- Crowther: Happiness.
Richard Griffiths - Hector
Samuel Anderson - Crowther

“Good order, very precise, feeling of the unknown. Fine poetry is the music of mathematics, numbers, singing. You have to look behind the words to understand their meaning.”

Sir Michael Gambon - Dr. Fredericks

“- Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.
- Rita: You what?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters - Rita

“- Becky: I love the sky. It's so limitless.
- Gilbert: It is big. It's very big.
- Becky: Big doesn't even sum it up, right? That word big is so small.”
Juliette Lewis - Becky
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape

“- 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

“In fact, when poetry is combined with ill-groomed hair and eccentric dress, it's generally fatal. You're very lucky, Elfine. He must have seen your finer points.”
Joanna Lumley - Mrs. Mary Smiling

- Becker: "When he's best, he's a little worse than a man, and when he's worst, he's little better than a beast".
- Hendricksson: Oh, that's real good, Becker. I never knew they put Shakespeare in comic books.

Roy Dupuis - Becker
Peter Weller - Joe Hendricksson

“Lifeless out of life, life out of lifeless.”
Teodor Corban - Costandin

“- Robert Meary: I can't teach people to write poetry. It has to come from your experience... from your insides.
- Cici Pinkus: What do you do if everything inside you is ugly?
- Robert Meary: Your life may be ugly, kid, but a successful poem about it will not be ugly because the poem will illuminate and communicate the horror of your life to...” (continue) (continue reading)
Harry Lennix - Robert Meary
Melissa McCarthy - Cici Pinkus

“Down the long white road we walked together. Down between the grey hills and the heather. You seemed all brown and soft, just like linnet. Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it. And there shone all April in your eyes.”

Kit Harington - Roland Leighton

“- Rita: Are you a poet?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.
- Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Pete Sandich: Love! Ain't what it used to be.
- Al Yackey: Oh there's only ever been two kinds: There's lash fires, which are all flame, burn themselves out and leave nothing. Then there's the long burning. That is nature's burn. Even when you think it's out, the forest floor is warm to the touch. That's the kind you and Dorinda got.
- Pete...” (continue) (continue reading)
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Pete Sandich
John Goodman - Al Yackey

“It's really a shame you can’t publish a sentence. I'm convinced it would be a best seller.”
Seth Green - James St. James

“The sole excuse for a relationship between two men is that it remains purely platonic. Surely you agree to that.”

Hugh Grant - Clive Durham

"Wilt thou give up thy garter, oh fairest of the fair"? Anne, nobody speaks that way. And look at that sap Percival who sits around mooning the entire time. He never lets a girl get a word in edgewise. In real life she'd have pitched him.
Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe

“If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“Robert Frost wrote it. I always remembered it because I never quite knew what he meant.”

C. Thomas Howell - Ponyboy Curtis

Want to hear a poem I wrote? "I love you, you love me. Going down the sugar tree. We'll go down the sugar tree, and see lots of bees: playing, playing. But the bees won't sting, because you love me". That's it.
John C. Reilly - Reed Rothchild

“A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”
Jim Jarmusch