Quotes by Frye, Northrop

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit >>

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was alread >>

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual i >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the s >>

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one' >>

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. >>

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.

Frye, Northrop