Northrop Frye Quotes
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
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Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.
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One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.