Quotes from Christopher Fry

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

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

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

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

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

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

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

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

The dark is light enough.

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

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

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

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.

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.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

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

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