Quotes About Symbolism

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?

What does poet laureate mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now.

we fill the nothing with suns, line them up, swallow sap, swallow field, drop by drop, each stem a pump. Rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx & anther, all summer gone.

OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?

Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.

The South lost ... and that is good ... and that hateful flag needs to come down ... and reparations need to be offered and if none of that can happen ... well ... let there be poetry

Life's true face is the skull.

If you have faith, a splinter from an old door will become a holy relic. And if you have no faith the entire holy cross will become an old door.

AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.

What matters is you're the blue butterfly. I'm… what? Come on, Professor, Dr. Maguire. You know all about metaphors and analogies and symbolism. You flew into my life, just landed in it unexpectedly. Maybe miraculously. And the picture formed. It just took me a while to see it.

Where are the sacred forms, and the ritual knife so I can slice open a vein and sign them in blood?

Mama, David asked me to marry him. I said yes. I see. That's it? That's all you have to say? I'm not finished. Tereza tugged Pilar's hand under the desk light, examined the ring, the stones. She, too, recognized symbols. And valued such things. He gave you a family to wear on your hand. Yes. His and mine. Ours.

Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot.

It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if "these associations influence people's behavior in important ways. For example, does wearing black clothing lead both the wearer and others to perceive him or her as more evil and aggressive? More importantly, does it lead the wearer to actually act more aggressive?

Your heart is my piñata.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

Birds ate my face.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've ever seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne.

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.

Si tal vez no necesitáramos de un personaje mítico y salvaje para representar nuestras vidas en proceso de desaparición.

It's weird how the name outlives the person, the signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.