Quotes by : Northrop Frye

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 snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even....

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

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in....

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

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer....

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

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he....