238 Quotes by Northrop Frye

If any literary work is emotionally 'depressing,' there is something wrong with either the writing or the reader's response.

The television set is so much more introverted than even the movie, and the movie in turn, more introverted than the concert hall or the stage

Ned Pratt is the only figure in Canadian literature, so far, great enough to establish a personal legend. And the legend was unique because it had the poet behind it.

Of course, a scholar who attempts anything but scholarship is rather in the position of a man who has volunteered to amuse a children's party; he is not sure that his really solid virtues will count for much.