Quote by Christopher Fry
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. -

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

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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

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

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

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. – Dylan Walsh

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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

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