Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. — Northrop Frye Failure Copy Share Image
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Aliens Copy Share Image
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a… — Northrop Frye Accountants 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
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye Education Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Hills Copy Share Image
Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution. — Northrop Frye Rejects Copy Share Image
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Amount Copy Share Image
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by… — Northrop Frye American culture Copy Share Image
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. — Northrop Frye Blake Copy Share Image
“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not… — Northrop Frye Books 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
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Art Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Areas Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Action 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
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
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
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult. — 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
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Block Copy Share Image
