Quotes About Symbolism

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. Itís a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

La luna deja un cuchillo abandonado en el aire, que siendo acecho de plomo quiere ser dolor de sangre.

La aurora de Nueva York tiene cuatro columnas de cieno y un huracán de negras palomas que chapotean las aguas podridas

Si me preguntan ustedes por qué digo yo "Mil panderos de cristal herían la madrugada", les diré que los he visto en manos de ángeles y árboles, pero no sabré decir nada más, ni mucho menos explicar su significado. Y está bien que sea así. El hombre se acerca por medio de la poesía con más rapidez al filo donde el filósofo y el matemático vuelven la espalda en silencio.

Estás aquí bebiendo mi sangre, bebiendo mi humor de niño pesado, mientras mis ojos se quiebran en el viento con el aluminio y las voces de los borrachos. Déjame pasar la puerta donde Eva come hormigas y Adán fecunda peces deslumbrados. Déjame pasar hombrecillo de los cuernos al bosque de los desperezos y los alegrísimos saltos.

El Tamarit tiene un manzano con una manzana de sollozos. Un ruiseñor apaga los sospiros, y un faisán los ahuyente por el polvo. Pero los ramos son alegres, los ramos son como nosotros. No piensan en la lluvia y se han dormido, como si fueran árboles, de pronto.

If I die, leave the balcony open. The little boy is eating oranges. (From my balcony I can see him.) The reaper is harvesting the wheat. (From my balcony I can hear him.) If I die, leave the balcony open!

In the parched pathI have seen the good lizard(one drop of crocodile)meditating.

Vendrán las iguanas vivas a morder a los hombres que no sueñan

I have often received messages from diverse readers that, with some variations, pose similar questions. For example: 'What did you want to symbolize with: a) the man that hits another man on his head with an umbrella? b) the mosquito that dominates the man? c) the fifty chastising lambs?' In all cases my answers, in these words or words like these, are; When I write a story I try to make it the best possible story in a literary sense: I just want to write a story.

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house

In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language

By a fortunate dispensation of providence, Russians possess a natural gift of make-believe. ... For them, as for no other race, the real and the imaginary, the actual and the symbolic, the literal and the figurative, tend to overlap and become one.

You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies

I never understood the meaning of a film. I am very concrete. I only understand what is on the screen. In my whole life, I have never understood a single symbol.

And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.