Quotes by : Northrop Frye

For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is....

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a....

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being....

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes....

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

The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what....

Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same person....

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

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