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.

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

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.