Quotes About Symbolism

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...

her mouth was a cruel flower. "Hair

Hexen stehen immer zwischen Birken

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle is actually as overwhelming in effect as the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

One hesitates to mention Derain, for his beginnings, full of vitality and promise, have given place to a dreary compromise with Cubism, without visible future, and above all without humour. But there is no better example of the development of synthetic symbolism than his first book of woodcuts.

The poetic line, a grave and timeless portal, requires a very simple password.

your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you

bees in Indian love poetry are said to form the bowstring of the god of lust and to plunge deep inside the flowers that ooze with sap even as the rutting elephant's temples ooze with musk.

The scarecrow never loses its elegance."

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

I was to meet at various times men or boys called Chilaib (little dog), Bakur (sow) and Khanzir (pig), startling among Moslems, who regarded both dogs and pigs as unclean. Others had such strange names as Jaraizi (little rat), Wawai (jackal), Dhauba (hyena), Kausaj (shark), Afrit (Jinn) and even Barur (dung). In order to avert the evil eye unattractive names like these were often given to boys whose brothers had died in infancy.

He was always on the lookout for the secret core of primitive ritual and magical belief hidden within the seemingly "rational" processes of modernity.

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

One thing then learned remains to me—The woodspurge has a cup of three.

Stories teach us through symbolic experiences how to be human. Therefore, this book will illustrate that when the dramatic tension is focused on the internal conflict, the external action becomes much more powerful and significant because it reflects what we know to be true about our own lives: We (and our characters) grow and evolve internally in direct relationship to the conflicts and obstacles that we face and overcome in the external world.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

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The shrine before her gave her a way to concentrate her thoughts, and powerful as symbols were, it was still just a symbol. Monuments and rituals served their purpose, but they fell away to insignificance before the essence of faith itself. That was what she offered the God-Emperor now.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.