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. - Christopher Fry

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Christopher Fry: "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."

Christopher Fry's Quotations

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Able	Amazement	Attention	Drawback
Earth	Explores	Full	Give
Half	Heaven	Himself	Language
Poetry	Predicament	Prose	Says
Seeming	Speaks	Though	Time
Twice	Virtue	Word	Your

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