I love how some people can throw around lines of poetry. It just seems so cool and refined. One example is John Green, who quotes poems in his videos and books. Lately I've been thinking about that, because I'd like to do it too. Which might be part of the reason I got this silly poetry project in my head.
Then because I just saw Spiderman 2, I noticed Dr. Octavius's line, "if you want to get a woman to fall in love with you, feed her poetry." Crap, is he right? Peter certainly gives it a try - he just needs to work on his timing.
In one of the Three Musketeers movies, Aramis is trying to show D'Artagnan how poetry can impress a girl. D'Artagnan makes a good effort.
"As morning hues of sun-swept fire caress your poisoned face."
I mean, my initial reaction to hearing people use poetry in a conversation is that I'm jealous. I wish I knew enough poetry to throw out quotes from it. I do that with lines from movies and songs, but that's not quite as classy. Maybe after I finish my poetry project, I'll have a few more poems I can quote.
But now I'm wondering if Dr. Octavius has a point. If the right guy read me the right lines of poetry, who's to say it wouldn't work?
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