Quotes About Symbolism

MOYERS: But that's not the Christian idea of creation

That's the same idea that comes to us through the German Romantics, as well as out of India. To Goethe's "Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("Everything transitory is but a reference"),5 Nietzsche adds another point: "Alles Unvergängliche—das ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("All things eternal are only references as well").

The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.

The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it.

river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing

that a work of art is very seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.

Black squirrel on a slag of stone--carry me home.

his liver was enlarged and rode across the small of his back like a hard-rubbery leech

the swans are beautiful like figures in a dream, that seem to represent something for which there are no adequate words.

How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies and textbooks! Of

Because it was silver foil and not a living rose, it could never rot and die.

Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.

El día en que se acaben los grillos, el mundo se llenará de los gritos de las ánimas santas y todos echaremos a correr espantados del susto.

Love this quotation I just read: "Ciao," the girl said. Fuck you, ciao. Ciao was the way Katherine and her friends said good-bye and it always struck her as a perfect symbol of their attempts to be what they weren't.

The clown performs mute rites, as poetry always celebrates some willfully silenced voice.

But Judas, now, sitting at the Last Supper trying to disguise his treachery, with that symbolic cat behind him, he was something else because of his human complexity.

Money is a kind of poetry.

There it was, word for word,The poem that took the place of a mountain.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...

Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.