Northrop Quotes: top 55 famous quotes about Northrop

Northrop Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Northrop quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. — Northrop Frye

The book is the world's most patient medium. — Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study. — Northrop Frye

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. — Northrop Frye

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility. — Northrop Frye

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. — Northrop Frye

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time. — Northrop Frye

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. — Northrop Frye

For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man. — Northrop Frye

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity. — Northrop Frye

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. — Northrop Frye

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult. — Northrop Frye

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. — Northrop Frye

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. — Northrop Frye

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. — Northrop Frye

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. — Northrop Frye

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution. — Northrop Frye

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. — Northrop Frye

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. — Northrop Frye

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. — Northrop Frye

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. — Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like — Northrop Frye

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. — Northrop Frye

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. — Northrop Frye

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. — Northrop Frye

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. — Northrop Frye

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. — Northrop Frye

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. — Northrop Frye

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows. — Northrop Frye

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. — Northrop Frye

The easiest thing to do with something that was bothering you was always to make fun of it. — Michael Northrop

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. — Northrop Frye

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. — Northrop Frye

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. — Northrop Frye

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy. — Ann Northrop

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him . — Northrop Frye

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. — Northrop Frye

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre. — Northrop Frye

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ... — Northrop Frye

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 and worked at. [p.93] — Northrop Frye

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye

We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks. — Northrop Frye

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye