Quotes by Allegory Allegory dwells in a transparent palace. Antoine-Marin Lemierre allegory palaces speech Everything for me becomes allegory Charles Baudelaire allegory Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. Charles Baudelaire allegory mold ifs I don't like allegory. China Mieville allegory A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. George MacDonald allegory fairytale may I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations. J. R. R. Tolkien like-and-dislike allegory manifestation I dislike allegory wherever I smell it. J. R. R. Tolkien allegory smell dislike Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Jeff Smith allegory myth metaphor All perishable is but an allegory. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe allegory A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory. John Keats allegory men Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Leo Tolstoy allegory unhappiness stories I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. Lydia Davis allegory reader struggle The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. Michel Tournier allegory myth function Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. Walter Benjamin allegory realms ruins