Allegory Quotes

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

Everything for me becomes allegory

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

All perishable is but an allegory.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

I don't like allegory.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.