Quotes About Symbolism

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.

Wealthy people wanted to have servants in the Next Life. Since they couldn't take their living servants with them, they made servant statues. These statues were called shabtis (SHAHB-teez).

There is a fine breed for you, Irish-Indian. My family crest would be a Shillalah with a Tomahawk on one end.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threatning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.

Locke sank into a swoon;The Garden died;God took the spinning-jennyOut of his side.

At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flitFlames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit.