35 Movie Quotes about Poetry (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Jun 22, 2026

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.

31 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)

32 This lovesick feeling that I have is not for the wind, moon, or stars, but as if the flower fall, the song is my broken heart.

Quote from 18 Bronze Girls of Shaolin (1983)

33 Who's there? -It's me. The girl who reads poetry. You remember me, don't you?

Quote from 18 Bronze Girls of Shaolin (1983)

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

Quote from Half Baked

35 It serves me right for even asking you. All butterflies know are songs and poetry and anything else they hear.

Quote from The Last Unicorn