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Quote by Christopher Fry
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose

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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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

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Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. – Terri Guillemets, “From the Library to the Park,” 1993

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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. – Sally Kirkland

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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