Quotes About Symbolism

Intimacy is never separated from external elements, without which it could not be signified. Where we think we have caught hold of the Grail, we have only grasped a thing, and what is left in our hands is only a cooking pot.

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds and cannot explicate it cannot be a true philosophy." Such prophesying may be reprehensible, as in Judaism, but it must be recognized as possible from the connection of things.

Why is gold called ??? (zahab)? Because there are three principles contained in it: the masculine, zakhar, and the ? (zayin) points to that; the soul, and the ? (he), points to that [obviously the feminine, since the consonant he in the mysticism of the alphabet has always been interpreted as such]; … and ? (bet) avouches its duration, as is written [in the Torah, which starts with this letter]: "in the beginning.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

A seal and matches and a swan and ivy and a suit.

the field, she catches a flash of silver: the bride's sisters and friends are dancing with knives. "They're dancing with knives." He turns. "They're about to cut the cake. That's to let him know they can handle knives. That he should be good to their sister. That they will protect her." "A warning." "Kurds aren't known for being subtle.

I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all.

In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun.

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Le propre d'une métaphore, c'est d'être réelle

The full moon is saying 'O!' But the sun is silent

Amelia Stapleton had frozen herself in a kind artificial girlhood which apparently resonated with the ghost of Georgiana Truelove. In fact, I saw a dreadful symmetry between the two: both of them unable to grow up, both of them preserved like insects in amber at this point of trauma, where their lives ended-Miss Stapleton's only metaphorically, but Georgiana Truelove's with a most dreadful literality.

Magic is all about metaphors.

The Spire is a bad card. It can mean a literal tower, but it also means a fall from a height, whether literal or figurative, the destruction of something old and valuable. It means isolation, abandonment. It is the card of the scapegoat." "All of them things?" He raises an eyebrow at me. "The card also means falling to prey to your own self-confidence.

Our minds have to translate magic into symbols we understand.

She enjoyed cooking, but there was so much more to her enjoyment than simply a fascination with recipes and food. For her, cooking and eating was symbolic of something bigger. Cooking was her way of expressing love. A way of creating a warm, comforting space...

Oenother took out a leather phallus, which she proceeded to coat with oil, ground pepper, and crushed nettle seeds. Gradually, she inserted it into my anus. The cruel crone kept sprinkling the fluid over my thighs. * She mixed nasturtium seed with artemesia and spread it over my genitals, then, with a switch in her limber hand, beat everything below my navel.

In Wangechi Mutu's mother tongue, Kikuyu, there is no word for "artist." The closest term is something like "magician" or "a person who uses objects and imbues them with meaning and power,