Scythe/structure

Famous quotes containing the words scythe and/or structure:

“The scythe that advances forever and never needs whetting.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something 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.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)