Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

I don't like allegory.

Gyorgy Ligeti

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory

Howard Mumford Jones

Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All perishable is but an allegory.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.