Quotes About Allegory

Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

the Bush family's proclivity for mock human sacrifice. What

Qual não foi o meu espanto quando enxerguei uma figurinha humana que pouco mais teria de seis polegadas, empunhando um arco e uma flecha, e com uma aljava às costas!

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This

some of Plato's most famous passages about the divided soul he represents the parts of the soul other than reason as non-human animals.

your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory, or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an allegory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

The wolfish horror of the worst scriptural verses is cloaked under various forms of sheep's clothing: the words are not meant to be taken literally, they are 'metaphorical'.

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.

The texts emphasize that these ideas were not to be interpreted literally. They had nothing to do with ordinary logic or events in this world, but were merely symbols of a more elusive truth.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?