Famous Quotes / Northrop Frye
13 Quotations by Northrop Frye
- 1. A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there ar ...
- 2. Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
- 3. Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is," there must always be some kind of t ...
- 4. Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendenc ...
- 5. In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pre ...
- 6. It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychologi ...
- 7. It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally poss ...
- 8. Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of natur ...
- 9. Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
- 10. Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
- 11. Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor ...
- 12. The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use o ...
- 13. The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because ...