It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.


Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) - Formal Phase: Symbol as Image

Northrop Frye Quotes

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a ...

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a ...

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a ...

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a ...