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

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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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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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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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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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There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
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I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.
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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
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Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
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The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
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We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.
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