Quotes About Symbolism

These crowns symbolize something greater than just a Miss California state crown. They carry a meaning of love, strength and unity for all.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

When I use the word 'Satan,' it doesn't stand for a guy with horns. To me, that word means the powers of the unknown, the powers of darkness.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women's belly.

I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?