Quotes About Symbolism

It took ten years In the woods to tell that a mushroom Stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birds Are the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolf Howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out Season after season, same rhyme, same reason.

of cattle, a bringer of dreams

Finding a penny faceup meant you would have good luck, but if the penny was facedown, then you were supposed to turn it over and leave it for the next person to have the good luck.

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

jumping the broom," in lieu of or in addition to the exchange of vows. The bride and groom would each jump backwards over a broom handle held a few inches above the floor, and raised slightly with each leap. Whoever stumbled first was, according to lore, forced to heed the wishes of the other.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

White used to symbolize the virgin purity of the wearer. Now it just meant the bride had acquired an expensive and unusable dress to hang in her closet after the big day.

I could imagine my grandmother's opinion about Holly's white wedding dress, since Holly had a little boy in school—but hey, whatever made the bride happy. White used to symbolize the virgin purity of the wearer. Now it just meant the bride had acquired an expensive and unusable dress to hang in her closet after the big day.

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

Science is all metaphor.

When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

Horror is my favorite genre, but it works best for me when it's a metaphor on top of something we can all relate to.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Those stories- myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature- are always with us. Always in us. We can draw upon them, tap into them, add to them whenever we want.