Allegory Quote by Antoine-Marin Lemierre Download Open image “Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.” — Antoine-Marin Lemierre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Palaces Speech Transparent
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The main hall of the palace was an intimidating place when empty, because it had been designed for exactly that purpose.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And then he left the palace to roam the streets of Ombria, where he painted shadows as he searched for light within them, painted… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This palace,' he had said, 'is a small city, past lying close to present like one shoe next to another. If you look at… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“For there is one thing that the designers of this sea-palace seem to have forgotten and seem to be a little ashamed of—and that… — Filson Young Copy Share Image
“By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have… — Phil Patton Copy Share Image
It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world. — Antoine-Marin Lemierre Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin 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
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the remains and evidences of its previous life. So also Moses saw to it that all those who had known Egypt and her mysteries should end their life in the desert; at Ephesus St Paul burnt all… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly… — Carl Jung 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
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install… — Susan Sontag Copy Share
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is of the same quality as all the rest—hence all of us are equal in the absolute sense, the essence, in the quality of our energy. However, some of the lamps are “turned down” and having less… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
