Northrop Frye

“We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.”

“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”

“Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.”

“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.”

“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”

“The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.”