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Northrop Frye Quotes

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us Picture Quote #1

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them Picture Quote #1

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism Picture Quote #1

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words Picture Quote #1

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable Picture Quote #1

The poet's job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of thing that always takes place Picture Quote #1

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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination Picture Quote #1

The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in Picture Quote #1

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself Picture Quote #1

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination Picture Quote #1

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind Picture Quote #1

Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world Picture Quote #1

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All texts are incarnational, and the climax of the entire Christian Bible, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, is the most logocentric sentence ever written Picture Quote #1

The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen must do better than that Picture Quote #1

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind Picture Quote #1

The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come Picture Quote #1

The worst thing we can say about God is that he knows all. The best thing we can say of him is that, on the whole, he tends to keep his knowledge to himself Picture Quote #1

If you haven't got an excremental vision you have no business setting up as a major satirist Picture Quote #1

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The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages Picture Quote #1

I give the impression of elusiveness sometimes, and rightly, because I really do have an inner chamber in my temple I'm not mature enough to open Picture Quote #1

What's transcendental in Blake is not the statically geometrical, but the sense of arrested energy: the wriggling vines and snakes, flames and the like...It's an expression of the belief that every object is an event Picture Quote #1

I must have God on my own terms, because God on somebody else's terms is an idol Picture Quote #1

One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities Picture Quote #1

I don't want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics and incorporating of art with the Word of God Picture Quote #1

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Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone Picture Quote #1

Under the stimulation of a great age or certain period of clarity in art a wider diffusion of genius becomes actual suggests to me that it is always potential Picture Quote #1

If I had been on the hills of Bethlehem in the year one, I do not think I should have heard angels singing because I do not hear them now, and there is no reason to suppose that they have stopped Picture Quote #1

Nobody seriously thinks of television as a viewer's mode of perception...No matter how much he wants people to look at his product, the advertiser doesn't realize that television is way of looking at him, and not his way of reaching them Picture Quote #1

The flow of information, which is mostly misinformation, is actually a presentation of myths. And people are increasingly rejecting the prescribed myths and developing their own counter-myths Picture Quote #1

An aphorism is not a cliche: it penetrates and bites. It has wit, and consequently an affinity with satire...Christ speaks in aphorisms, not because they are alive, but because he is Picture Quote #1

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What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us (Northrop Frye Quotes) Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them (Northrop Frye Quotes) Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism (Northrop Frye Quotes) Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words (Northrop Frye Quotes) It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable (Northrop Frye Quotes) The poet's job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of thing that always takes place (Northrop Frye Quotes) The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination (Northrop Frye Quotes) The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in (Northrop Frye Quotes) No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself (Northrop Frye Quotes) Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination (Northrop Frye Quotes) Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind (Northrop Frye Quotes) Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world (Northrop Frye Quotes) All texts are incarnational, and the climax of the entire Christian Bible, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, is the most logocentric sentence ever written (Northrop Frye Quotes) The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen must do better than that (Northrop Frye Quotes) One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind (Northrop Frye Quotes) The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come (Northrop Frye Quotes) The worst thing we can say about God is that he knows all. The best thing we can say of him is that, on the whole, he tends to keep his knowledge to himself (Northrop Frye Quotes) If you haven't got an excremental vision you have no business setting up as a major satirist (Northrop Frye Quotes) The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages (Northrop Frye Quotes) I give the impression of elusiveness sometimes, and rightly, because I really do have an inner chamber in my temple I'm not mature enough to open (Northrop Frye Quotes) What's transcendental in Blake is not the statically geometrical, but the sense of arrested energy: the wriggling vines and snakes, flames and the like...It's an expression of the belief that every object is an event (Northrop Frye Quotes) I must have God on my own terms, because God on somebody else's terms is an idol (Northrop Frye Quotes) One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities (Northrop Frye Quotes) I don't want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics and incorporating of art with the Word of God (Northrop Frye Quotes) Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone (Northrop Frye Quotes) Under the stimulation of a great age or certain period of clarity in art a wider diffusion of genius becomes actual suggests to me that it is always potential (Northrop Frye Quotes) If I had been on the hills of Bethlehem in the year one, I do not think I should have heard angels singing because I do not hear them now, and there is no reason to suppose that they have stopped (Northrop Frye Quotes) Nobody seriously thinks of television as a viewer's mode of perception...No matter how much he wants people to look at his product, the advertiser doesn't realize that television is way of looking at him, and not his way of reaching them (Northrop Frye Quotes) The flow of information, which is mostly misinformation, is actually a presentation of myths. And people are increasingly rejecting the prescribed myths and developing their own counter-myths (Northrop Frye Quotes) An aphorism is not a cliche: it penetrates and bites. It has wit, and consequently an affinity with satire...Christ speaks in aphorisms, not because they are alive, but because he is (Northrop Frye Quotes)

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