Quotes About Symbolism

Do you understand Christ to be more like an ox (excuse us, three oxen) or more like a door?

let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.

If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!

My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.

A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl.

The angels enter not into a house where there is a dog or a likeness'—are those not the words of our Prophet?

Als ik me de wedergeboorte Gods voorstel, dan zie ik die niet in de mens. Het zou in een lam kunnen zijn, maar ik vind een ezel liever.

In Hong Kong, some high-rises are missing all floor numbers with 4, such as 4, 14, 24, 34, and all of the 40s. That's why Hong Kong elevators are the fastest in the world: They arrive quickly at floor 50.

Green Christmas, white Easter

They had read of the albatross in the book of the bombed-out palace.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anatomy.

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne

El pan que es ya santo sobre la mesa de casa, conviértese sobre la mesa de la Iglesia en el cuerpo inmortal de Cristo. También la moneda es el signo visible de una transustanciación; es la hostia infame del demonio. El dinero amonedado es el excremento corrompido del demonio

Actualmente, hablamos de lenguajes en plural, por tanto, de lenguajes cuyo significante no es la palabra: por ejemplo, el lenguaje del cine, de las artes figurativas, de las emociones, etcétera. Pero éstas son acepciones metafóricas. Pues el lenguaje esencial que de verdad caracteriza e instituye al hombre como animal simbólico es «lenguaje-palabra», el lenguaje de nuestra habla.

a cabeça de um poderoso a rebolar no chão sempre foi um dos espectáculos mais acarinhados pelas massas.

the design of many patriarchal religious buildings resembles the body of a woman. Think about it: there is an outer and inner entrance (labia majora, labia minora) with a vestibule between (an anatomical as well as architectural term) and a vaginal aisle up the center of the church to the altar (the womb) with two curved (ovarian) structures on either side. The altar or womb is where all-male priests confer everlasting life—and who can prove that they don't?

In Western mythology, she might be compared to Medusa, the serpent-haired Greek goddess whose name means Knowing Woman or Protectress. She once was all-powerful—until patriarchy came along in the form of a mythic young man who chopped off her head. He was told to do this by Athena, who sprang full-blown from the mind of her father, Zeus—a goddess thought up by patriarchy and therefore motherless. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory In

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.

As far as I know, no one ever burned a bra. At the 1968 Miss America Contest in Atlantic City, several hundred feminists protested on the boardwalk by putting girdles, steno pads, aprons, dust mops, and other symbols of the "feminine" role into a trash can and threatening to burn them; it was an echo of Vietnam draft resisters burning draft cards. However, they couldn't get a fire permit and never burned anything. 4

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Just as there was a day every spring when the women of the town, as though by some secret signal, appeared in their summer dresses before the first heat was felt, there was as well a day when winter showed the knife before the first laceration.

1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings