I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads…

- Northrop Frye

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

- Northrop Frye

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

- Northrop Frye

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of …

- Northrop Frye

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

- Northrop Frye

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

- Northrop Frye

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

- Northrop Frye

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually m…

- Northrop Frye

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human …

- Northrop Frye