Northrop Frye Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

  Northrop Frye

  Use, Speech, Language

  "The Educated Imagination (Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence)". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

• There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

  Northrop Frye

  Way, Language, Mankind

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.195, Dundurn

• It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

  Northrop Frye

  Language, Surrender, Metaphor

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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

  Northrop Frye

  Imagination, Literature, Study

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.484, University of Toronto Press

• The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

  Northrop Frye

  Intelligent, Men, People

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2004). “Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries”, Gnomon Distribution

• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Moving, Science

• I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

  Northrop Frye

  Fundamentals, Literature, Speech

  "The Educated Imagination". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

• Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

  Northrop Frye

  Sleep, Fundamentals, Language

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.175, Dundurn

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