We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. Northrop Frye More Quotes by Northrop Frye More Quotes From Northrop Frye The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Northrop Frye literal primaries poetic Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. Northrop Frye incompetent incomplete reading Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution. Northrop Frye rejects revolution Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye nature discovery order We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. Northrop Frye rhetorical situation imagination Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind. Northrop Frye criticism literature men 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 tortoises fables tire To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye literature One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. Northrop Frye mind adventure believe Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. Northrop Frye language fundamentals sleep Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature. Northrop Frye jupiter literature long In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. Northrop Frye anything-goes imagination world For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong. Northrop Frye writing giving people Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. Northrop Frye produce classic literature Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean. Northrop Frye mean children thinking Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. Northrop Frye movement healthy culture [Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. Northrop Frye romance strong fiction Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. Northrop Frye speech language use Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. Northrop Frye unity metaphor mind We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks. Northrop Frye scared space goes-on
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