Christopher Fry Quotations

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.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

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

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

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.

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?

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

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

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

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