If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's ...
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.
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...
The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should incipient allegories to the reader. [C.S. Lewis wr...
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 w...
But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.
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 reade...
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being much too like th...
Everything for me becomes allegory.
...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
Some readers cannot enjoy the shepherds because they know (or they say they know) that real country people are not more happy or more virtuous than any one else; but it would be tedious here to explain to them the many causes (reasons too) that have ...
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...
