Quotes by Fry, Christopher

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsid >>

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape >>

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. >>

Poets are born, not paid. >>

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. >>

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. It 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.

Fry, Christopher