Books Quote by Northrop Frye

“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look…

— Kate Bornstein

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul…

— Deena Metzger

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live…

— Helen Oyeyemi

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true…

— Ambrose Bierce

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

— Robert Bringhurst

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

— H. Richard Niebuhr