Poetry
Portions of poetry occur in the film:
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- "Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare
- "Women" ("Surat al-Nisa") from the Quran
- "The Indian Serenade" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read more about this topic: Orlando (film)
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)