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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?
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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
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Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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