Quotes About Symbolism

Symbolism, to Carnaday, was superstitious nonsense. Psychiatry, though, was worse. It was the purest sort of buncombe, hardly as respectable as spiritualism.

a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)"

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

The same wood used for the coffin and the roof structure. (Au cercueil sert le même bois, et à la charpente du toit)

The V for victory has a shape of slingshot. (Le V de la victoire a une forme de lance-pierre.)

You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment.

The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.

I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.

And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register.

The senses affect us so powerfully that we often use one sense to describe another. We use physical words—for heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness—to describe colors. We use visual words—for brightness and darkness, focus and blurriness—to talk about sounds. So we use metaphors to describe metaphors

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest.

Let us still believe that the nerves proceed from the heart, and not from the brain, and that the heart is the seat of consciousness, and that the ring-finger is (as Aulus Gellius asserts) in the most direct communication with it!

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.

This little insect of the poets...

Pure mathematics is the magician's real wand.

A rose in sunlight is nature. A rose in the dark is poetry.

The rainbow, "the bridge of the gods," proved to be the bridge to our understanding of light — much more important.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

the Black Tortoise

Los libros pertenecen a la vez a varios campos. La literatura, en sí misma, pertenece al orden del arte en general que, por supuesto, es muy complejo, y, yendo hacia lo más sencillo, al orden primario del juego, como el trapo que se vuelve muñeca, como el palo de escoba que hace de caballo.

Somewhere along the way we identified ourselves with them, and came to associate birds with the realm of spirits, as opposed to that of bodies and their carnal appetites.

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

The right hand in Scripture symbolizes power and authority

Any cube can be found on the lawn of the White House.