Quotes About Symbolism

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

As for the Virgin, the one distinctively female figure in the galaxy.

But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.

They blossom ever where you tread... Wild roses bloody red.

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

Those words were like… they were like seeing a bloody knife. You didn't need to have witnessed the stabbing to understand what it meant.

His mind traced the arabesques and coils of an alphabet that looked like music sounded.

Names have power, and he was, from infancy, associated with gold.

Hieronymus Bosch

an apostrophe humbled to a comma.

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If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. "Did you know your name means 'wisdom'? It was very well-given.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled. "You want to get married?

She stared at the crude stone medallion that rose and fell against her bosom. And then it struck her. El Lobo, the wolf. Hunter of the Wolf. Her friend had protected her with something more than just lances in the yard. He had left his mark on her person. You will wear it for always? A hysterical laugh welled in her throat. And then relief swept through her. Hunter's woman.

Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols to be encoded, their letters trees in a forest, enmeshed, their tangled meanings never finally picked apart.

The dove will rise above destruction with a white rose in her beak. over storm over tempest. over time and the ages. And the petals will fall to the ground like snow.

Over the next twenty years, other Indigenous patients of mine had similar animal spirit dreams—markedly different from the dreams of white people.)

Stories, drama, and other symbols powerfully influence children.

Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn't waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn't been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.

Coyness is what makes it art, darling. Otherwise … otherwise it's nothing but a funeral.