There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. — Northrop Frye Beginning Copy Share Image
We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. — Northrop Frye Apocalypse Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that… — Northrop Frye Apocalypse Copy Share Image
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him . — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Discovery Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and… — Northrop Frye Experience Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life.… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Canada Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Analogies Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
“The Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.” — Northrop Frye Canada Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium. — Northrop Frye Book Copy Share Image
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. — Northrop Frye Human mind Copy Share Image
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms… — Northrop Frye Language Copy Share Image
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are… — Northrop Frye Criticism Copy Share Image
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Adventure Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything… — Northrop Frye Atheism Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Animal Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
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