Christopher Fry Quotes

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?

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

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

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

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

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

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

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

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

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

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.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

The dark is light enough.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate