Quotes About Symbolism

Las nuevas naciones hispanoamericanas, además, confundieron la política con la historia. Para fortalecer su ruptura política con España fueron a buscar su identidad histórica fuera del orbe hispánico, en las raíces indígenas, en la autoctonía criolla y en la invención de un pasado clásico americano. Tuvieron con su raíz española un pleito de negaciones simbólicas que nos confunde todavía.

Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross.

The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on "Jung and Marx." [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his work to be theoretically and historically substantiated by alchemy, and that Jung spent a

A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf

I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter.

He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat's udder.

I am caught in this burning scene. Pan's hour, the faunal noon. Among gumheavy serpentplants, milkoozing fruits, where on the tawny waters leaves lie wide. Pain is far.

With a pansy for the pussy in the corner.

Her bosom was as a bird's, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove. But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face.

he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th

There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night she signs her final tear.

dreams are not a mystery. They simply represent our hopes and fears

symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

A police uniform is just a piece of clothing sewn by the same tailors who sew your clothes.

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

I wouldn't really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it's all a uniform.

Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again, it represents something that is not unifying.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.