31 Movie Quotes about Poetry (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about poetry, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

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.

Quote from 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.

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.

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 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.

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?

Quote from 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.

Quote from A Christmas Story (1983)

10 Pure poetry.

Quote from Ratatouille

31 Movie Quotes about Poetry (Sound Clips)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 Poetry. Sheer poetry.

10 Pure poetry.

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