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We relate the poems and plays and novels we read and see, not to the men who wrote them, nor even directly to ourselves; we relate them to each other. Literature is a world that we try to build up and enter at the same time.

— Northrop Frye The Educated Imagination (1963)

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Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

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The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

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