Christopher Fry Professions : Poet Born : December 18, 1907 Died : June 30, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 43 quotes by Christopher Fry 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. Christopher Fry zest artist writing In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. Christopher Fry eternity-of-life tragedy time What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. Christopher Fry cleaning halos virtue 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? Christopher Fry soul men years There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. Christopher Fry reality fiction thinking 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. Christopher Fry truth life mean Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement. Christopher Fry prose-and-poetry language men Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. Christopher Fry wide eye imagination Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me. Christopher Fry hypocrite way moving I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose. Christopher Fry causes heart lost The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can. Christopher Fry home lost looks 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. Christopher Fry mysterious-things real hands One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria. Christopher Fry bud hysteria one-day Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Christopher Fry despair comedy appreciation Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing Christopher Fry understanding may wings Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats? Christopher Fry victory differences motivational We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. Christopher Fry persuasion world 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. Christopher Fry poetry men heaven The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate Christopher Fry birth-rate rising moon If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day. Christopher Fry sleep morning memories Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
