Quotes from Northrop Frye

Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre iresponsabilitate sociala. Revolutionarul nu este decat un critic nepregatit, care confunda mitul libertatii cu realitatea, la fel cum un copil confunda actrita cu o printesa de basm reala.

Pure mathematics enters into and gives form to the physical sciences, and I have a notion that myths and images of literature also enter into and give form to all the structures we build out of world

In these days we're in a hare-and-tortoise race between mob rule and education: to avoid collapsing into mod rule we have to try to educate a minority that'll stand out against it. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

Drama is not a genre for infant prodigies: I can't think of a dramatist who made a major reputation as early as, say, Keats or Rimbaud in lyric poetry.