Northrop Frye World Quotations

Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

The book is the world's most patient medium.

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