Christopher Logue Quotes

Christopher Logue, CBE was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. November 1926 – 2. December 2011
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Famous Christopher Logue Quotes

“Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.”

Christopher Logue

Originally written for a poster advertising an Apollinaire exhibition at the ICA in 1961 or 1962, and there titled "Apollinaire Said". The poem is therefore often misattributed to Guillaume Apollinaire. (Source: Quote…Unquote Newsletter, July 1995, p. 2).
Source: "Come to the Edge", from New Numbers (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969) pp. 65-66.

“Said Marx, "Don't be snobbish, we seek to abolish
The 3rd class, not the 1st."”

Christopher Logue

"M", from Logue's A. B. C. (London: Scorpion Press, 1966)

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