Christopher Fry
British playwright
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I hope
I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat,
A spade is never so merely a spade as the word
Spade would imply.
—Christopher Fry, British playwright, Venus Observed, 1950
Posted on November 7, 1998 at 11:44 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.... 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.
—Christopher Fry, British playwright, Time
Posted on March 8, 2001 at 11:21 PM
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