War is what happens when language fails.
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Margaret Atwood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Anonymous
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...
