Quotes by : Northrop Frye

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

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

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the....

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

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....

So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and....

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

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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