Best Northrop Frye Sayings
- Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned… Capable
- The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… Absorbed
- Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its… Approach
- It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. Acceptable