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“In society's eyes the virtue of saying the right thing at the right time is more important that the virtue of telling the whole truth, or even of telling the truth at all.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

“The world of literature is human in shape”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html <br class="br">Contexte: The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience... The world of literature is human in shape, a world where the sun rises in the east and sets in the west over the edge of a flat earth in three dimensions, where the primary realities are not atoms or electrons but bodies, and the primary forces not energy or gravitation but love and death and passion and joy.

“A literary critic of experience never defines anything.”

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Source: "Quotes", Interviews with Northrop Frye (2008), p. 4

“The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.”

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Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter One, p. 7

“Literature does not reflect life, but it doesn't escape or withdraw from life either: it swallows it.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

“What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a "pure" or "exact" science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

“The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen [Frye's wife] must do better than that.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

“[Students] have to learn that ideas do not exist until they have been incorporated into words. Until that point you don’t know whether you are pregnant or just have gas on the stomach.”

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Source: "Quotes", Interviews with Northrop Frye (2008), p. 746

“Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.”

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Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 58

“Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.”

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Introduction, p. xviii
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)

“I don`t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God.”

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Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7

“One should have bigger & better conversions everyday, like a mechanized phoenix.”

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"Quotes", Notebooks

“It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Anagogic Phase: Symbol as Monad

“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”

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Fables of Identity (1963)
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“What’s transcendental in Blake is not the statically geometrical, but the sense of arrested energy: the wriggling vines & snakes, flames & the like…It’s an expression of the belief that every object is an event.”

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Source: "Quotes", The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972 (2002), p. 14

“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.”

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Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 79

“The human mind is [a poet's] individual mind at first, but as soon as he writes a poem it becomes our [the readers'] minds too. There is no self-expression in [a poet's] poem, because once the poem is there the individual [poet] has disappeared. …there is really no such thing as self-expression in literature.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

“The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.”

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Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Five, p. 158

“All texts are incarnational, and the climax of the entire Christian Bible, "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us," is the most logocentric sentence ever written.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is" there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.”

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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Anagogic Phase: Symbol as Monad