Poetry quotes

- Grace Winslow: You don't behave as if you are in love.
- Catherine Winslow: How does one behave as if one is in love?
- Arthur Winslow: One doesn't read "The Social Evil and The Social Good". One reads Lord Byron.
Gemma Jones - Grace Winslow
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
Nigel Hawthorne - Arthur Winslow

“- 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

“- Daisy Kincaid: What's your aversion to proper grammar?
- Brady Kincaid: Rhythm maybe.”
Susan Sarandon - Daisy
Edward Norton - Brady Kincaid

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

“- Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music!
- Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex.
- Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry!
- Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they're on pot.”
Zooey Deschanel - Anita Miller
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“- Gilbert of Glockenspur: My humble life is indebted to your exalted prowess, your dauntless courage, and your superb, swift sword!
- Bowen: You have the poet's gift of exaggeration.
- Gilbert of Glockenspur: Sir, you should read my histories.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Gilbert of Glockenspur
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“Anyone who doesn't appreciate poetry doesn't understand that it's all about seduction.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor

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

Daryl Mitchell - Mr. Morgan

“If you want to get a woman to fall in love with you, feed her poetry.”
Alfred Molina - Dr. Otto Octavius

“It is strange that you do not remember any of your poetry, William Blake.”

Gary Farmer - Nobody

“His invention saves the human life several times, but first he must graduate in Poetry.”

Paul McGann - The Doctor

“The making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do's and don'ts. First of all you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.”
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“- Vada Sultenfuss: I want to be a writer. I want to be just like you.
- Alfred Beidermeyer: Hmph. Me? My dear, this is not a country that rewards poetry. This is a country that rewards gas mileage. Besides, people don't read poetry anymore; they watch television.”
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss
Aubrey Morris - Alfred Beidermeyer

- Ed Bloom - Young: "The grass so green Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!". It's only three lines long.
- Norther Winslow: This is why you should never show a work in progress.

Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young
Steve Buscemi - Norther Winslow

“- John: You ever read any of her poems?
- Jane: I don't read poetry. It's ugly and it bugs me.”
William R. Moses - John
Leslie Hope - Jane

“I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill.”
Bruce Hampton - Morris

“- Elizabeth Bennet: I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love?
- Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead.”
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Bennet
Matthew Macfadyen - Mr. Darcy

“- Toulouse-Lautrec: The hills are made with the euphonious symphonies of descant...
- Doctor: I don't think a nun would say that about a hill.”

John Leguizamo - Toulouse-Lautrec
Garry McDonald - The Doctor

- Sonny Valerio: "If a warrior's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should still be able to perform one more action with certainty". What the fuck does that mean?
- Ray Vargo: It's poetry. The poetry of war.
Cliff Gorman - Sonny Valerio
Henry Silva - Ray Vargo

“- May Welland: What are you reading?
- Newland Archer: Oh, it's a book about Japan.
- May Welland: Why?
- Newland Archer: I don't know. Because, it's a different country.
- May Welland: You used to read poetry. It was so nice when you read it to me.”
Winona Ryder - May Welland
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Thornton Melon: What's your favorite subject?
- Bubbles the Hot Tub Girl: Poetry.
- Thornton Melon: Really? Well, maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow.”
Rodney Dangerfield - Thornton Melon
Becky LeBeau - Bubbles the Hot Tub Girl

- Miles Massey: "Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery". Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
- Freddy Bender: Objection, your honor.
- Judge Marva Munson: Grounds?
- Freddy Bender: Uh... poetry recitation.
George Clooney - Miles
Richard Jenkins - Freddy Bender
Isabell O'Connor - Judge Marva Munson

“- Linus Larrabee: So your little poem, what does it mean?
- Sabrina Fairchild: It's the story of a water sprite that saves a virgin from a fate worse than death.
- Linus Larrabee: And Sabrina's the virgin.
- Sabrina Fairchild: Sabrina's the savior. ”
Harrison Ford - Linus Larrabee
Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild

“Respect! I wrote a haiku about respect. And the moon!”
Adrienne Shelly - Stephanie

“- Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
- Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
- Vizzini: Enough of that.
- Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
- Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
- Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it.”
Mandy Patinkin - Inigo Montoya
André the Giant - Fezzik
Wallace Shawn - Vizzini