Northrop Frye said this quote

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

(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.

~ Northrop Frye

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

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

~ Northrop Frye