Prose and poetry Quotes by Christopher Fry

1 Prose and poetry quote by Christopher Fry

All Prose and poetry quotes Christopher Fry’s page

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

Image

Other authors on Prose and poetry

More by Christopher Fry

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

Image

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Christopher Fry

Image

“Mother, I make it known publicly: I'm tired of my little brother. Will you please Give him to some charity?”

Christopher Fry

Image

“THOMAS Can I have your name? RICHARD It's yours. THOMAS Now, look RICHARD It's no earthly Use to me. I travel light; as light, That is, as a man can travel who will Still carry his body around because Of its sentimental value. Flesh Weighs like a thousand years, and every morning Wakes heavier for an intake of uproariously Comical…

Christopher Fry

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got…

Christopher Fry

“A priest found an infant, about ten inches long, Crammed into the poor-box. The money had all Been taken. Nothing was there except myself,…

Christopher Fry

Image

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

Christopher Fry

Image

“JENNET. Twilight, double, treble, in and out! If I try to find my way I bark my brain On shadows sharp as rocks where half a day Ago was a wild soft world, a world of warm Straw, whispering every now and then With rats, but possible, possible, not this, This where I'm lost. The morning came, and left The…

Christopher Fry