Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is ther… - Northrop Frye

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. (1:313)

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

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience...The world of literature is human in shape, a world where the sun rises in the east and sets in the west over the edge of a flat earth in three dimensions, where the primary realities are not atoms or electrons but bodies, and the primary forces not energy or gravitation but love and death and passion and joy.