Imagination Quotes by Northrop Frye

9 Imagination quotes by Northrop Frye

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Northrop Frye’s nine brief musings on imagination provide a scholarly yet accessible look at how he viewed the creative faculty. Though limited in number, each quote distills his critical perspective on narrative and myth.

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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

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We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…

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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the…

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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it…

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“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be…

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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

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