Quotes About Symbolism

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn

Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.

it is an allegory of our times.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

Dark of Heartness tiptoed into the Heart of Darkness.

A bee died in a coffin flower.

Her collarbones like wings spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things . (Random House April 22, 1997)

He folded his fear into a perfect rose... She took it from him, and put it in her hair.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

It was hot in the church, and the white edges of the arum lilies crisped and curled. A bee died in a coffin flower.

The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist painted mockeries of my fury.

In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.

Both life and nature are black.

Dreamt [. . .] of a grey hen who came rubbing against me, wanting to be stroked. She was afraid of me, thought I was dangerous, but I stroked her and then she flew up and settled on the roosting-bar or shelf in the hen-house.

were passed on to later generations in bowdlerized and abridged versions as stories for children. The same happened to Gulliver's Travels and to Moby Dick, to Robinson Crusoe, to—Children appreciate a good story. They don't enquire about symbolism or archetypes, and they never read critics.

Aesop's fable: As the Lion said to the Man, "There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

An initiation is a symbolic death and rebirth, a rite of passage that transforms each person who experiences it.

As feminist scholar Carol Christ points out, "Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected, they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.

His image is poemagogic: It both symbolizes and sparks the creative process, which is itself a Quest.

A spell is a symbolic act done in an altered state of consciousness, in order to cause a desired change.