We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. — Northrop Frye Beginning 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
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
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
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. — Northrop Frye 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
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
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 human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye 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
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
“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
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Bible Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Books Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Discovery Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Analogies 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 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
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these… — Northrop Frye Books 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 twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye 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 Canada 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
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. — Northrop Frye Apocalypse 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
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally… — Northrop Frye 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 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
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. — Northrop Frye Books 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
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
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