31 Movie Quotes about Poetry (Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Charlie, my friend who speaks but poetry and borrows but money. -The better to drink but brandy.

Quote from In a Lonely Place

22 'Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, but thy eternal summer shall not fade'

Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport in Clueless (1995)

23 Sounds just like a poem. If it rhymed, it would rhyme with murder.

Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

24 Harry Schoenhopper, the angry poet.

Quote from The Big Heat (1953)

25 Clear your mind! Think, think anything a poem, a song! Don't let them burn your mind!

Quote from The Flight of Dragons (1982)

26 Explain love to me, Chuck. -I can recommend a book or a painting or a song or a poem, but I can't explain love.

Quote from It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

27 Oh, your poetry is so very touching.

Quote from Swiss Miss (1938)

28 Though she might be mad. -No, I don't think so. She does write poems. -Poems? She'll be barking.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

29 Hey, kid! How much roadwork did you do this morning? -Six miles. -I thought I told you only four. -I lost track making up a poem.

Ernest Borgnine as Angelo Dundee in The Greatest (1977)

30 Would you like to hear some of my poetry? -Not really. -You really should.

Quote from Half Baked