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“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
J.R.R. Tolkien“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”
John Geddes“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.”
Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties“There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory”
Douglas M. Laurent“There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory”
Douglas M. Laurent“All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...”
Richard Flanagan“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”
Charles Baudelaire“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?”
Eli Of Kittim, The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”
Erwin Schrödinger“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.”
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave