
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 2: The Singing School
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 2: The Singing School
“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
“The world of literature is human in shape”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html
Context: 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 system is anything that talks to itself.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
In Search of History, Chapter I: War and Peace in Historical Perspectives, p. 1
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