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

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Source : Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

Christopher Fry

#Men Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Language Quotes

“This one isnâ€™t just any old horse. Thereâ€™s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, thereâ€™s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We donâ€™t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.”
“It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.”
“If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.”
“Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.”
“In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.”
“Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!”
“Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.”
“I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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