It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Disturbed Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Believe Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks. — Northrop Frye Areas Copy Share Image
We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Centre 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
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac… — Northrop Frye Allusion Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Consoling Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Amount Copy Share Image
The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or… — Northrop Frye Firsts Copy Share Image
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — 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
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. — Northrop Frye Fiction Copy Share Image
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye All kinds Copy Share Image
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye Copying Copy Share Image
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not… — Northrop Frye Book 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
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
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. — Northrop Frye Appeals Copy Share Image
Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it. — Northrop Frye Making money Copy Share Image
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. — Northrop Frye Core Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Aim Copy Share Image
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