Quotes About Symbolism

The American flag has smothered the glory of the cross. Many people can't see the beauty of the cross because everything the American flag represents to them is in the way.

all things speak, in their way, don't they?

A pod for peas wears hearts on a sleeve.

If I ever prayed, as a child, for everlasting union, these were its shoes: one dew-licked kicked-off slipper of a being now flying, one sunrise-milk-green boot of the dead, which I wore, as I dreamed.

He would wear the ornery, stick-wielding Penguin on his chest and carry the expectations for saving hockey on his shoulders.

Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.

They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not.

However, by relegating The Good to the government, and making it a matter of public policy, we transformed it from an earnest and personal moral struggle into a glib cultural symbolism.

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

It's one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.

I stared at the objects before me: cold coffee in a cup of thick white glass, folded napkin, spoon with a liquid coffee shadow on its face. Symbols of order and humility, comfort and banality. These were the things of my life; I had been sitting at these goddamn coffee tables all my life recovering from what other people had done to me.

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

our dominant technology shapes our symbolism and thereby our metaphysics, our view about what is real.

The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.

These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives. Most people, in fact, live in cities, and therefore most readers are not necessarily very familiar with the natural world. And yet the natural world has always been the great warehouse of symbolic imagery. Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

To honor Thor, Vikings often wore necklaces with little hammers on them. The word Thursday comes from Thor's name. And guess what? It means "thunder's day"!

freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.

A robin lighted on a blackthorn at my elbow, and began to sing. The sound came high and sweet and uncaring through all the noise of battle. To this day, whenever I think of the battle for Kaerconan, it brings to mind a robin's song, mingled with the croaking of the ravens.

A pataphor is an extreme form of metaphor that is used to express excitement. For example, "She swam with such grace that the water was left undisturbed by her tail." This pataphor describes a girl who swims as gracefully as a fish. Be