Quotes About Symbolism

Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony—in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!

We sat as silent as a stone, We knew, though she'd not said a word, That even the best of love must die, And had been savagely undone Were it not that Love upon the cry Of a most ridiculous little bird Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

The crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

I throw this apple before you. Take it—if you love me purely, and give up your virginity. Yet if you will not love me keep the apple—and think how long the beauty lasts.

Ich glaube, in den Schrecken des Dritten Reichs ein einzigartiges, exemplarisches, symbolisches Geschehen zu erkennen, dessen Bedeutung allerdings noch nicht erhellt wurde: die Vorankündigung einer noch größeren Katastrophe, die über der ganzen Menschheit schwebt und nur dann abgewendet werden kann, wenn wir alle es wirklich fertigbringen, Vergangenes zu begreifen, Drohendes zu bannen.

And since he was unable to give him any form, he would honor him with his works: Natural products were to be a simile for the world, and above them would burn a flame symbolizing the spirit of man, yearning upwards toward its maker.