“Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone.”

— Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 8

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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