Northrop Frye Quotes
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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.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most ...
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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...
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
| Name | Northrop Frye |
