Poet Quotes in Kismet (1955)
Poet Quotes:
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Poet: May your taxes increase!
[said when acting as a beggar to get the Baghdad merchants to give him alms]
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Caliph Guard: [closing lines] Is this man to be pardoned, O Caliph?
Omar: Pardon him, All Highest. His crime was a service. Let him go free.
Poet: No, don't ask that. Under the circumstances it would embarrass the All Highest to pardon his father-in-law. O, Prince of Justice, let me help you to compose this most difficult of verdicts against a man who in his life never once did right and who never once wronged anyone. Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis at least a week's camel journey away. Force him to take with him the widow of the soon-to-be late Wazir...
[turning to Lalume, the Wazir's wife, and speaking under his breath]
Poet: and all the property she can get her hands on before the accounts are audited.
[turning back to the Caliph, in full voice]
Poet: Condemn him to lighten her sorrow and to toil ceaselessly to remove all grief from her heart.
Lalume: You have just condemned yourself for life, My Lord.
Poet: And finally, O Prince of True Believers, take from me my greatest treasure, my daughter, Marsinah. Take her away forever by marrying her to the end of her days.
Caliph: Such is the Caliph's pleasure. And so he orders.
Poet: [singing] Princes come, princes go. / An hour of pomp and show. / They know princes come / and over the sands and over the sands of time they go. / Wise men come ever promising the riddle of life to know. / Wise men come, but over the sands / the silent sands of time they go. / Lovers come, lovers go / and all that there is to know / lovers know, only lovers know.
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Poet: Health and anarchy!
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Poet: I can not die, I want to commit suicide.
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Buddy: I tell you what to think and when to think!
Poet: Don't tell me anything man, I'm not a member of your private army.
Buddy: Well then Get out!
Poet: I don't need you, and I don't need your rules or your uniform man.
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[repeated line]
Poet: What the hell is the matter with you?
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Poet: What fruit factory do you guys come from?
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Shill: Would you fight for me?
Poet: I'd kill for you.
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