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Christopher Fry

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English poet and playwright (1907–2005)

Person · Open Library

Works
59

Top works

  • Thor WIth Angels, A Play
  • The ladys not for burning
  • The Boy with a Cart
  • Can You Find Me
  • THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH.A WINTER COMEDY.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1957-08-24
britishenglishnon-musicianuk

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
7

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I tell you, Miss, I knows an undesirable character When I see one; I've been one myself for years.
  • The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.
  • Try thinking of love, or something. Amor vincit insomnia.
  • Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Christopher Fry, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana