#lego

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. ↗

— Amos Oz

#allegory #chamber #i #immediate #israelis

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. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#allegorical #apparently #been #expression #hold

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. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#biblical #brief #humour #i #inspirational

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #mockery #monsters #vices #jealousy

I, like balloon animal hacks everywhere, can only make one animal so far. It is a LEGO version of the Island of Dr. Moreau, wherein I have brick-engineered a pig-camel, a dog-camel, and a camel with wheels. These monstrosities are quickly torn apart, and I wonder if I have some unresolved camel issues. ↗

— Jonathan Bender

#lego #love

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#allegory #criticism #art

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#elf #hope #legolas #hope

Everything for me becomes allegory. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#becomes #everything #me

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#books #broad-mindedness #classic #education #imagery