Northrop Frye Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

Northrop Frye

Cat, Blue, Imagination

Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Northrop Frye

Reality, Imagination, Literature

Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.470, University of Toronto Press

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

Northrop Frye

Imagination, Anything Goes, World

Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.22, Indiana University Press

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

Northrop Frye

Art, Giving, Imagination

Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.473, University of Toronto Press