J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations."
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Allegory
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Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"All perishable is but an allegory."
John Keats
Poet
"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"I dislike allegory wherever I smell it."
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"Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth."
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"I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting."
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