31 Movie Quotes about Poetry (Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 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)

12 These stories are beautiful. Why, they're almost poetry. -Well, don't kid yourself. They are.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

13 There was a Chinese poet who was drowned while trying to kiss the moon in the river. He was drunk. -I'd say as much. -But he wrote beautiful poetry.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

14 Profession... A.I.D., huh? -Yes. artificial insemination donor. It's just a job I had for a while. Actually, I'm a poet.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

15 I think he didn't like my poem. He's anti-art.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

16 Believe it or not, I studied 19th-century French poetry. -What a waste of time!

Quote from Groundhog Day

17 Well, I think you have a gift for it. That was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

18 What the hell is that? -If we're lucky, it's a Vogon guard come to throw us into space. -And if we are unlucky? -The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

19 Vogon poetry is, of course, the third worse in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20 The very worst poetry of all, and its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, of Greenbridge, Essex, England, perished in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.