Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice

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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. - Christopher Fry

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English playwright

Born:18th December, 1907
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Starsign: Sagittarius

Author Keywords: Playwright, English

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