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

—  Northrop Frye

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

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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