Quotes About Symbolism

The limbs of a dismembered poet.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

the planets show what is happening, the signs how it is happening, and the houses where it is happening.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen" James Howell

I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

I have at last got busy about Mummy's grave. . . . . The inscription I should like is: EDITH MARY TOLKIEN 1889-1971 Lúthien :brief and jejune, except for Lúthien , which says for me more than a multitude of words: for she was (and knew she was) my Lúthien. … I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion . Letter 340 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

The moment you fall to your knees in front of a cross, thinking you're praying to some God, you're missing the point. The idea is to look through the symbol to the meaning behind it. Or, as Zen Buddhists put it: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." T

West-central Fife could use a spot of communion itself. It would drink the wine and pawn the chalice.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Ya que las espadas fueron diseñadas para matar, hicieron bien en hacerlas con forma de lengua.

El dicho Sufi es: "Dios, para una abeja, es algo que tiene DOS aguijones.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Singura certitudine: poemul. Singura cuminec?tur?: poemul. Lua?i, mânca?i, acesta este trupul ?i sângele nostru: poemul.

A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

while daisies burn like stars on the darkened hill.

The Major Arcana cards are the big-picture cards. They're dramatic: the characters are larger than life.

There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.

I look forward to the day the cross sits discarded beside the swastika as just another reminder of the dangers of blind faith.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

Ella ha desaparecido y con ella toda una época… Se cierra el período glorioso que simbolizaba su nombre».

If your problems are physical, you can also intuitively picture a square around the entirety of the field; this shape will keep you safe until you heal. If your challenges are relational in nature, use a circle, and if they're mental, try a triangle.