The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come. (2:568) - Northrop Frye

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. (p. 70)

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.