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When symbolism says what plain words can't.

This collection of allegorical quotes moves from questions about myth and common sense to Kafka's pull toward symbolic storytelling. One painter even describes their own portrait work as allegorical heads rather than straightforward likenesses.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Facts
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Nov 07, 2020

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

Painting
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

Political
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Nov 07, 2020

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

Quotes by Reza Aslan

Half
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Nov 07, 2020

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

Quotes by John Kessel

Ideas
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Nov 07, 2020

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Elsewhere, the theme turns political, as poets in Iran are described using allegory as a coded language. For more on how ideas get communicated indirectly, see Expression and Facts quotes.

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