Quotes by Frye, Northrop

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the lim >>

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

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabb >>

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt agains >>

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poet >>

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.

Frye, Northrop