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
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left… — Northrop Frye Canada Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is… — Northrop Frye Language Copy Share Image
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands… — Northrop Frye Bedrock Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Blue 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
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye Approach Copy Share Image
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele… — Northrop Frye Liberal 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
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Accepting Copy Share Image
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. — Northrop Frye Anything goes Copy Share Image
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Crude Copy Share Image
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its… — Northrop Frye Chess Copy Share Image
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. — Northrop Frye Funny 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
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. — Northrop Frye Apocalypse 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
“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
“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of… — Northrop Frye Human life Copy Share Image
