Quotes About Symbolism

Book of Revelation frequently described objects in groups of seven to symbolize the seven "chakras" or energy systems in the body.

Agama bukan sekadar ritual dan tata cara. Ada makna di balik ritual dan tata cara itu.

Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

Una poetisa muerta de cáncer en su juventud había dicho en uno de sus poemas que para ella, en las noches de insomnio, la noche ofrece sapos, perros negros y cadáveres de ahogados

Exact, chiar asta voiam s?-È›i spun! EÈ™ti ca un poet simbolist dep??it de epoc?. Din crâmpeie de È™tiin?? tu vrei s? faci cuvintele unui cântec, dar È™tiinÈ›a nu ofer? simboluri pentru sentimentele unei femei.

Por qué florecía aquel loto en medio de una hoguera? ¿Por qué no se marchitaba?

Her kimono stood out from her neck,and her back and shoulders were like a white fan spread under it. There was something sad about the full flesh under that white powder. It suggested a woolen cloth,and again it suggested the pelt of some animal.

He wondered whether the flowing landscape was not perhaps symbolic of the passage of time.

Sì, è possibile che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno.»

I am from the Kilburn branch of the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation, said Hifan proudly. Irie inhaled. Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation, repeated Millat, impressed. That's a wicked name. It's got a wicked kung-fu arse sound to it. Irie frowned. KEVIN? We are aware, said Hifan solemnly, pointing to the spot underneath the cupped flame where the initials were minutely embroidered, that we have an acronym problem.

To the suffering person, suffering is solely suffering. It is only for others, as a symbol, that suffering takes on any meaning or purpose. No one ever got lynched and thought, Well, at least this will lead inexorably to the civil rights movement. They just shook, suffered, screamed, and died. Pain is the least symbolic thing there is.

Poezija rašoma ašaromis, apsakymai - krauju, o istorija - nematomu rašalu

For the folklore Hurston collected so meticulously as Franz Boas's student at Barnard became metaphors

He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. So she put something in there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

I don't like allegory.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I like to use horror as allegory.

Me and my friends made a group called 1400 and the number always stuck with me. I always see it everywhere I go. There's an angel behind the number, it's an angelic number.

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

At the same time the wretched rooms rose before him, denuded of the poetry of love which beautifies everything; he saw them dirty and faded, regarding them as emblematic of an inner life devoid of honor, idle and vicious. Are not our feelings written, as it were, on the things about us?

From time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from their necks (dangerous as it was to carry that sign of a religion which was suppressed, rather than abolished) shook their long hair and raised their heads defiantly.

I went out, leaving traces of my muddy boots on the carpet which covered the paved staircase. I like to leave mud on a rich man's carpet; it is not petty spite; I like to make them feel a touch of the claws of Necessity.

Nog voor de roep van Cantecleer Klinkt het geraaskal van Endymion Leer.