32 Movie Quotes about Poetry (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

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

Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport in Clueless (1995)

22 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)

23 Harry Schoenhopper, the angry poet.

Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion in The Big Heat (1953)

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

Harry Morgan as Carolinus in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

25 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.

Dylan Beach as Charlie Brown; Stuart Brotman as Peppermint Patty in It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

26 Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

27 Pure poetry.

Patton Oswalt as Remy The Rat in Ratatouille

28 Oh, your poetry is so very touching.

Stan Laurel as Stan in Swiss Miss (1938)

29 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

30 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)