Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination Quotes
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
(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.
Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.