Efficient Machine Quotes by Northrop Frye

More Quotes by Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
• We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
• Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
• To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
• A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and…
• Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what…
• The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if…
• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…

See all 55 quotes by Northrop Frye »