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
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally… — Northrop Frye Acceptable 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
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
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 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
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation… — Northrop Frye Beauty 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
Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the… — Northrop Frye Bible 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
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
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Desire 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
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Aspect 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
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Canada Copy Share Image
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. — Northrop Frye Failure 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 Accountants 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
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him . — Northrop Frye Bits 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 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
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Books 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 Enough 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 metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular… — Northrop Frye Affectionate 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
The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if… — Northrop Frye Arguing 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 Aliens 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
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