Poets 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

“You Russians think of yourselves as poets, but perhaps you're just touchy.”

Chris Pine - Jack Ryan

“Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.”
Richard Burton

“The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“Maybe in a past life I was a poet - or an artist.”
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs

“- William Thatcher: I can't explain it. She makes me feel like a poet.
- Roland: Well you may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot. You don't even know her name.”
Shannyn Sossamon - William Thatcher
Mark Addy - Roland

“I'm not a poet. I don't die for love. I work on Wall Street.”
Woody Allen - Andrew

“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.”
Jim Jarmusch

“In a poets pocket you often find the product of an active imagination.”
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac

“I like you people, but you are sentimental shits! You fall in love with the poets; the poets fall in love with the Marxists; the Marxists fall in love with themselves. The country falls in love with the rhetoric, and in the end we are stuck with tyrants.”
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcel Jazy

“- Lt. George Ramsdale Witton: Did you write that, Harry?
- Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant: No, no. It was a minor poet, called Byron.
- Lt. Peter Handcock: Never heard of him.
- Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant: I did say he was a minor poet.”
Lewis Fitz-Gerald - Lt. George Ramsdale Witton
Edward Woodward - Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant
Bryan Brown - Lt. Peter Handcock

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

“Bill Shakespeare was a wonderful poet. But Burt Bacharach he ain't.”
Martin Hayter Short - Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates

“Now, I know Shakespeare's a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that.”

Daryl Mitchell - Mr. Morgan

“You're a poet, not a rock star.”

Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson

“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

“- Frank Spofford: Poet fella, I hear.
- Gowan McGland: That's what people tell me. I make no such claim.”
Roberts Blossom - Frank Spofford
Tom Conti - Gowan McGland

“- Joe: Carol was a poet and a member of 'MENSA' so...
- Steffi: She was a heroin addict!
- Joe: Yeah she was also a heroin addict, but I thought it was insulin, so how was I to know?”
Woody Allen - Joe
Goldie Hawn - Steffi

“Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Maybe some of us drink because we're not poets.”
Dudley Moore - Arthur Bach

“If your going through some shit in your life chances are somebody else has gone through the same thing before ya. And they've written about it. Some poet or philosopher has been through the same type of crap, and they've written about it. And when you find that poem or piece of writing. You think bloody hell this bastard has just summed it all...” (continue) (continue reading)
Steven Vidler - The Man

“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

“- Mare Spofford: That fella poet is raping all the women in Woodsmoke?
- Frank Spofford: Yeah, you'll have to wait your turn, Mare.”
Lois Smith - Mare Spofford
Roberts Blossom - Frank Spofford