The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. — Northrop Frye Activity Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Anxiety Copy Share Image
“For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.” — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a… — Northrop Frye Human life Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Ancient Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to… — Northrop Frye History Copy Share Image
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it… — Northrop Frye Capable Copy Share Image
We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Centre Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. — Northrop Frye Dream Copy Share Image
Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not… — Northrop Frye Activity Copy Share Image
“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the… — Northrop Frye Art 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
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye Aphorism 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 Accurate Copy Share Image
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and… — Northrop Frye Atheism Copy Share Image
“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be… — Northrop Frye Faith 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 Enough Copy Share Image
The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. — Northrop Frye Death Copy Share Image
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye Civilization Copy Share Image
