“Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.”

Letter to Helen Kemp, 1935, The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939, (1996), p. 1:426
"Quotes"

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world." by Northrop Frye?

Northrop Frye137

Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

Related quotes

“Go to hell, I'm reading!”

Archie Goodwin (1937–1998) writer

“I wrote Fearful Symmetry during the Second World War, and hideous as the time was, it provided some parallels with Blake's time which were useful for understanding Blake's attitude to the world.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

Preface of the 1969 edition of Fearful Symmetry : A Study of William Blake (1947)
"Quotes", Fearful Symmetry : A Study of William Blake (1947)
Context: I wrote Fearful Symmetry during the Second World War, and hideous as the time was, it provided some parallels with Blake's time which were useful for understanding Blake's attitude to the world. Today, now that reactionary and radical forces alike are once more in the grip of the nihilistic psychosis that Blake described so powerful in Jerusalem, one of the most hopeful signs is the immensely increased sense of the urgency and immediacy of what Blake had to say.

“Into the New World my first message.”

Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, enlightener, philosopher

Leaves Of Morya's Garden (1924 - 1925), Book I : The Call (1924)
Context: Into the New World my first message. You who gave the Ashram,
And you who gave two lives,
Proclaim.
Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps.
Reader, if you have not grasped — read again,
after a while.
The predestined is not accidental,
The leaves fall in their time.
And winter is but the harbinger of spring.
All is revealed; all is attainable.
I will cover you with My shield, if you but tend to your labors.
I have spoken.

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I have but one sincere purpose in narrating the foregoing experience: my most urgent message and plea to every person who reads it is:”

George Adamski (1891–1965) American ufologist

Flying Saucers Have Landed

“My father's simple message - it's not an anti-Muslim message, it's [an] anti-terror message, you know, we have ISIS and they're running in rampant around the world and we have to do something about it.”

Eric Trump (1984) American businessman and philanthropist

Eric Trump weighs in on father's feud with fallen soldier's parents https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eric-trump-weighs-in-on-his-fathers-comments-on-the-khan-family/ (August 2, 2016)

“.. since then I have found consolation in Blake; 'Without Contraries is no progression', he says in his Proverbs of Hell. And Baudelaire's idea that 'Variety is an essential condition of life' seems to me to be in perfect accord with my aspirations and with my intention, as a Futurist painter, to put life in the place occupied by reasoning in the art of the Cubist period.”

Gino Severini (1883–1966) Italian painter

Source: The Life of a Painter - autobiography', 1946, Letters of the great artists', 1963, p. 247

“Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.”

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) British writer

12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)

“It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

"UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt make holiday visit to Colombian refugees in Costa Rica" (25 December 2006) http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/4590e1674.html

“Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Northrop Frye137

Related quotes

Related topics