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• Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

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  Art, Nature, Artist

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.257, University of Toronto Press

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• No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.

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  Magic, Literature, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.447, University of Toronto Press

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• 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.

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  Art, Criticism, Body

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

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  Sleep, Fundamentals, Language

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.175, Dundurn

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• 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.

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  Art, People, Use

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

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  Book, World, Patient

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• The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

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  Poetic, Primaries, Literal

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.79, University of Toronto Press

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• Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something 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.

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  Nature, Discovery, Order

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

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  Believe, People, Suffering

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

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  Focus, Mind, Operations

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.25, University of Toronto Press

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• We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

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  Writing, Looks, Use

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

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• The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

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  Supremacy

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.221, University of Toronto Press

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• Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

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  Healthy, Culture, Movement

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.292, Dundurn

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• In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

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  Art, Poetry, Literature

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.74, Princeton University Press

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• Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

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  Literature, Classic, Produce

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.442, University of Toronto Press

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

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  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.

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  Making Money

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• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

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  Art, Law, Elements

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

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• The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

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  Travel, Past, Europe

  Northrop Frye (2013). “The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

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  Fables, Tortoises, Tire

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.120, Dundurn

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• The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

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  Firsts, Study, Structure

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.49, University of Toronto Press

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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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  Reading, Succeed, Structure

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.7, University of Toronto Press

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• [Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

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  Strong, Romance, Fiction

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• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

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  Country, Moral, Making Money

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• Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

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  Religion, Atheism, Infinity

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.277, Dundurn

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