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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
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
— 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
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
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
— Northrop Frye
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
— Northrop Frye
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
— Northrop Frye
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.
— Northrop Frye
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
— Northrop Frye
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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 world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
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