Quotes About Symbolism

A neighbor portrayed as a pig is someone whose land you can take. But those who followed the symbolic logic became victims in their turn. Having turned the poorer peasants against the richer, Soviet power then seized everyone's land for the new collective farms.

True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics, can possess and exhibit the same essential quality.

In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.

For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.

Waeges, Menog, and Oestara." I named them from right to left. "Autumn, Winter, and Spring.

In the act of seeing through the symbolic fiction and thereby failing to recognize its efficacy, the cynic does not escape its influence. In fact, this influence is all the more powerful for its having become wholly inconspicuous, which is precisely what befalls the subject in the society of enjoyment.

Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Oftentimes reoccurring dreams are ways a loved one is trying to come through and deliver a message.

I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

Life has always poppies in her hands.

And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Entonces el ruiseñor voló sobre el rosal que crecía alrededor del reloj de sol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

And in this it is right, for the meaning of any beautiful created thing is, at least, as much in the soul of him who looks at it as it was in his soul who wrought it. Nay, it is rather the beholder who lends to the beautiful thing its myriad meanings, and makes it marvellous for us, and sets it in some new relation to the age, so that it becomes a vital portion of our lives and a symbol of what we pray for, or perhaps of what, having prayed for, we fear that we may receive.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

274 My father is just like Piero della Francesca's father: metaphorical.

Mercy imagined Freya as part of the earth itself, so every flower and tree, even every blade of grass symbolized her goddess.