Quotes by Northrop Frye

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Literary critic · Canadian · 1912–1991

Canadian literary critic (1912–1991)

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“Poets are happier as servants of religion than of politics.”
— Northrop Frye

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglemen...”
— Northrop Frye

“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.”
— Northrop Frye

“One person by himself is not a complete human being.”
— Northrop Frye