15 Movie Quotes about Poetry
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We live in the digital age where attentions are shrinking and focus is altering. Unfortunately poetryhas become one of the most underestimated mediums in modern culture. There are so many reasons why poetry is good for us and the world today, an ugly world, chaotic, violent and without mercy. If we embrace poetry, it can offer us a way to empathize with one another. Reading poetry allows one to see into the soul of another person, writing poetry is the best way to grasp internal turmoil. To inspire our readers, we selected the 15 best movie quotes about poetry.
From the movie: The White Tiger
Iqbal, that great Muslim poet, was right when he wrote, "The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.''
Adarsh Gourav - Balram
From the movie: The Good Shepherd
“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.”
commenting on a poetry piece from Edward
Sir Michael Gambon - Dr. Fredericks
From the TV Series: Euphoria
“You’ve got to believe in the poetry. Because everything else in your life will fail you. Including yourself.”
Colman Domingo - Ali
From the movie: Locked Down
“I am not stupid. I read poetry.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Paxton
From the movie: Spellbound
“- 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
From the movie: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“- 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!”
Sir Percy Blakeney talks about his poem
Anthony Andrews - Sir Percy Blakeney
Julian Fellowes - The Prince Regent
From the movie: The Shape of Water
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
From the movie: Something's Gotta Give
“- 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
From the movie: Educating Rita
“- 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.”
Rita is being nosy about Frank's marriage
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters - Rita
From the movie: The History Boys
“- 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
From the movie: Cold Comfort Farm
“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
From the movie: Pumpkin
“- 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 other people.”
Harry Lennix - Robert Meary
Melissa McCarthy - Cici Pinkus
From the movie: Educating Rita
“- 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
From the movie: Boogie Nights
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
From the movie: Dead Poets Society
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
Robin Williams - John Keating
