The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know. Northrop Frye
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
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Jess C. Scott
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
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Sharon Salzberg
In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me...
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Dorothy Parker
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and...
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Sharon Salzberg
More Quotes By Northrop Frye
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.
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…
So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be assumed, where there are no rights or wrongs and all arguments are equally good? One of the most obvious uses, I think, is...
