Quotes About Symbolism

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.

From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?

Svijetla kosa i tamna kosa, to su dva pola ljudskog karaktera. Tamna kosa zna?i muževnost, odvažnost, otvorenost i poduzetnost, dok je svijetla kosa simbol ženstvenosti, nježnosti, bespomo?nosti i pasivnosti. Plavuša je, prema tome, dvostruka žena. Princeza mora biti plavokosa. Zato žene, da bi bile ženstvenije, boje kosu u žuto, a nikad u crno.

Tomas ne savait pas, alors, que les métaphores sont une chose dangereuse. On ne badine pas avec les métaphores. L'amour peut naître d'une seule métaphore.

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this poor muscle and buried it in Poland. A dead person is treated either as trash or as a symbol. Either way, it's the same disrespect to his vanished individuality.

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.

Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Tomás compreendeu então que as metáforas são perigosas. Não se brinca com as metáforas. O amor pode nascer de uma simples metáfora

La grandezza di un uomo risiede per noi nel fatto che egli porta il suo destino come Atlante portava sulle spalle la volta celeste.

Tomas ne comprenait pas alors que les métaphores sont une chose dangereuse. On ne badine pas avec les métaphores. L'amour peut naître d'une seule métaphore.

The important thing was not what the conversation was but what it represented.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.