What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a "pure" or "exact" science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmol… - Northrop Frye

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

Man is born lost in a forest. If he is obsessed by the thereness of the forest, he stays lost and goes in circles; if he assumes the forest is not there, he keeps bumping into trees. The wise man looks for the invisible line between the "is" and the "is not" which is the way through. The street in the city, the highway in the desert, the pathway of the planets through the labyrinth of the stars, are parallel forms. (1:111)

One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities. (p. 7)