Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”
Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914) <br class="br">1910s
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Source: True to Form