Alain de Lille Professions : Poet Born : 1128 Died : 1202 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Alain de Lille Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold. Alain de Lille shining gold Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us Alain de Lille mirrors book world An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. Alain de Lille writing animal men Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. Alain de Lille shining gold Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors