Poetry quotes

“For you, my little prairie flower 
I'm thinking of you every hour 
It would make my life divine
if you would change your name to mine.”

Ralph Bellamy - Daniel Leeson

“- Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: Look, I know you're hurting now, but in time you'll realize what you've achieved.
- Jimmy Rabbitte: I've achieved nothing!
- Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: You're missing the point. The success of the band was irrelevant - you raised their expectations of life, you lifted their horizons. Sure we could have been famous and made...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Murphy - Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Robert Arkins - Jimmy Rabbitte

“That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.”

Gary Farmer - Nobody

“- Jocelyn: I demand poetry, and when I want it, and I want it now.
- William Thatcher: Your breasts... they're beneath your throat.”
Heath Ledger - Jocelyn
Shannyn Sossamon - William Thatcher

“- Norma Rae: Who's this? Dylan Thomas?
- Reuben Warshowsky: He was a poet. A genius and a drunk.”
Sally Field - Norma Rae
Ron Leibman - Reuben Warshowsky

“- Henry Fool: Your instincts are profound. But the whole thing needs to be given a more cohesive shape. It can be expanded, followed through, unified. Do you see what I'm getting at? Are you willing to commit yourself to this? To really work on it? To give it its due in the face of adversity and discouragement? To rise to the challenge you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Thomas Jay Ryan - Henry Fool
James Urbaniak - Simon Grim

It reminds me of my favorite poem, which is, "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic... and so am I!"

Bill Murray - Bob Wiley

“- Robbie Fay: Don't you be dirtying that nice clean bus, now.
- Alfie Byrne: You have it lovely, Bosie. I can see myself in it, like Narcissus.
- Robbie Fay: You're at it again.
- Alfie Byrne: At what?
- Robbie Fay: That stuff you do. Big words. Poetry.”
Rufus Sewell - Robbie Fay
Albert Finney - Alfred Byrne

“Before this war began, many of my regiment had never seen a Negro. Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed. We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.”
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

Someday my wish is for him to hold me in his arms, in a sea of deep blue, together at last, together as two", ohhh that's beautiful, I didn't know you were a poet.

Patrick Dempsey - Ronald Miller

“- Girl on beach: Where does poetry come from?
- Charles Serking: You show me your titties and I'll compose a poem. Just for you.”
Katya Berger - Girl on beach
Ben Gazzara - Charles Serking

“Roses are red, John's name is Truett. Esther's in love, we always knew it!”
Joan Carroll - Agnes Smith

I saw my mother's favorite poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo". There were stains on the page, which, I believe were her tears. They fell across the last line, "For here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life".
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“Is this the face that wrecked 1000 ships and burned the towerless tops of Illium? Farewell, fair Helen.”

Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“- Kesslee: Eight, eight, the burning hate. Between Sunday and Monday there lies a day so dark it will devastate.
- Tank Girl: Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues, shoot me now, please.”
Malcom McDowell - Kesslee
Lori Petty - Tank Girl

“Thirty days have September, October, June and February, all the rest have 29, except my brother who got six months.”
Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi