Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends...well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the… — Brea Nicole Bond Copy Share Image
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight… — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
“I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Adelaide remembered the first storm Justinius had seen her through. She had seen many storms since then, some milder than others, some… — Valerie Howard Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What does Éloa mean?” He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.” Penelope tilted her head, thinking.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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