I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. Northrop Frye More Quotes by Northrop Frye More Quotes From 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 educatedpiecesimagination The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection. Northrop Frye reflectionorderthinking Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of Northrop Frye growing-uppeopleart 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 tennesseekindcharacter Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Northrop Frye mixturesadvertisingbusiness 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 egotemptationbeauty A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing. Northrop Frye writingmeanpeople A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone. Northrop Frye criticismdoemay The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. Northrop Frye doecivilizationworld Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. Northrop Frye mythologyhumansliterature The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium. Northrop Frye patientbookworld I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. Northrop Frye egyptisraellaw In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye elementslawart Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult. Northrop Frye teachingliteratureimpossible Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. Northrop Frye hellmessagesworld We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. Northrop Frye life-isdreamfeelings Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense. Northrop Frye typeold-testamentspecial The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. Northrop Frye mythologyliteraturephilosophy Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. Northrop Frye aphorismtranslatewriting Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. Northrop Frye attributeswritingmay
