Quotes About Symbolism

Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon.

Sometimes it crosses my mind that the things I write here are nothingother than images that prisoners or sailors tattoo on their skin.

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

The image of God cut in ebony.

The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, drest.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

The object of the theoretical (as separate from the practical) Qabalah, insofar as this thesis is concerned, is to enable the student to do three main things: First, to analyze every idea in terms of the Tree of Life. Second, to trace a necessary connection and relation between every and any class of ideas by referring them to this standard of comparison. Third, to translate any unknown system of symbolism into terms of any known one by its means.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. It's not a fashion accessory.

All is allegory... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

Z was the last to come over, and as he opened his arms wide, for some reason, the slave bands that had been tattooed around his throat and wrists stood out to her.

A gust of wind went Nike across the flat landscape