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

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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're a poet, not a rock star.”

Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson