Northrop Frye Imagination Quotations

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself