“[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.”

— Northrop Frye

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

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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