“ Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. Northrop Frye
“ Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. Northrop Frye
“ Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercant… Northrop Frye
“ Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. Northrop Frye
“ We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. Northrop Frye
“ The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. Northrop Frye
“ Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact… Northrop Frye
“ There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. Northrop Frye
“ We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. Northrop Frye
“ Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. Northrop Frye
“ The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it. Northrop Frye
“ The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Northrop Frye
“ Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise known as bowdlerizing,is intolerably vulgar...Unimaginative realism ev… Northrop Frye
“ For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man. Northrop Frye
“ Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same person or group. In Moby Dick, Ahab’s quest for the whale may be mad and “monomaniacal,” as it is frequ… Northrop Frye
“ The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you… Northrop Frye
“ A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone. Northrop Frye
