Quotes by

Christopher Fry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. – Christopher Fry

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry