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DRAMATISTS > dramatist, playwright > Christopher Fry
Poetry is the...
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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.
Source: Time (New York, 3 April 1950).
-- Christopher Fry, (Dec 18 1907-2005), English dramatist, playwright; He wrote plays The Lady's Not for Burning, 1949 and Venus Observed, 1950.