Northrop Frye Language Quotations

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

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

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]