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Christopher Fry Biography

Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.

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How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Determined, Dry, Serenity, Wring

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

Appreciation, Comedy, Despair, Faith, Truth

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

Light, Men, Sentimental, Travel

Equality is a mortuary word.

Class, Equality, Mortuary, Word

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

Home, Look, Looks, Lost, Wherever

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

Clean, Cleaning, Halos, Keep, Thing, Virtue

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.

Hands, Human, Magnificently, Mysterious, Mysterious Things, Real

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Honest Woman, Kicking, Religion, Traces, Woman

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

Conclusion, Incomplete, Knows, Nature

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

Comedy, Eternity Of Life, Moment, Time, Tragedy

The dark is light enough.

Dark, Enough, Light

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Coffee, England, Espresso, Milk, Toasted

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Brotherhood Of Man, Defects, Know, Men, Plain

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

Happens, Madness, Observe, Wisdom

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

Death, May, Touch, Understanding, Window, Wings

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

Language, Man, Men, Poetry, Prose And Poetry

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Fulfillment, Indulgences, Permit, Permits, World

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.

Attention, Giving, Half, Prose, Time, Twice

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Men, Spirit, Warm, 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.

Heaven, Language, Men, Poetry, Word

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