32 Movie Quotes about Poetry (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 23, 2025

Memorable quotes about poetry, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 If you're very lucky, I might read you some of my poetry first.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 And if we're unlucky? -The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3 Now choose, either die, in the vacuum of space, or, tell me how good you thought my poem was.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4 No. You're completely wrong. I write poetry just to throw my mean, callous, heartless exterior into sharp relief.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5 I should like to recite my favorite poem. It's called Ode to an Owl.

Owl From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life. And, if God choose, I shall love thee better after death.

Lynn Mortensen as Sally Brown in Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

7 How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale?

Kathryn Beaumont as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

8 My dear sir, as the poet says... On land, you may command. At sea, it is me.

Burgess Meredith as The Penguin in Batman (1966)

9 Poetry. Sheer poetry.

Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story (1983)

10 Couldn't understand a damn thing he said. So, I got him to read me poetry out loud.

Sam Shepard as Frank Calhoun in The Notebook (2004)