Christopher Logue

Christopher Logue CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) was an English writer, best known as a poet, though he was also a journalist, translator, lyricist, screenwriter, playwright and actor.

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 * I, Christopher Logue, was baptized the year Many thousands of Englishmen, Fists clenched, their bellies empty, Walked day and night on the capital city.
 * "The Song of Autobiography", from Songs (London: Hutchinson, 1959) p. 12.


 * 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.
 * "Come to the Edge", from New Numbers (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969) pp. 65-66.
 * 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).


 * Said Marx, "Don't be snobbish, we seek to abolish The 3rd class, not the 1st."
 * "M", from Logue's A. B. C. (London: Scorpion Press, 1966)