Northrop Frye Mind Quotations

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.