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“ What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former. ”

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The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

~ Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye Imagination Literature Metaphor Writing

For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.

~ Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye Devine Nature

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

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Northrop Frye Nature Self Unity

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

~ Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye Accountant American Canadian Money