Quotes by Frye, Northrop

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he >>

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

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

Quotations about Beauty

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute t >>

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; i >>

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer >>

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop