Quotes About Symbolism

a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.

We hardly said anything, we seemed to communicate through the chessmen, there was something very symbolic about my winning. That he wished me to feel. I don't know what it was. I don't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my "virtue" triumphed over his "vice" or something subtler, that sometimes losing is winning.

Limba german? se potrive?te cu moartea a?a cum limba latin? se potrive?te cu ritualul religios.

cassocks and cowls, armour and jerkins, and

Mary's uncle presented the fifteen-year-old king with the scepter, the rod of justice and a ring

Mary of Guise, whose emblem, or impresa, was the phoenix.

Although the queens of France were also anointed and crowned

Mary alone insisted on wearing a white gown.

At the ceremony for Dudley's ennoblement, Darnley bore the sword of state

she finished, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross in the Catholic way.

the cardinal ordered the heraldic arms of England to be blazoned with those of France and Scotland

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Melville's Moby-Dick—

That image of how the children can lift Owen over their heads in Sunday school—how he is light enough so they can easily pass him back and forth when the teacher is out of the room—is not only as near to the beginning of the novel as I could find a place for it; that image is echoed at the end of the novel, where Owen's seeming weightlessness is interpreted to mean that he was always in God's hands. But the penultimate paragraph of the

to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own ashes. Under the drawing, Owen had written: "OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN IDEALISM, OR HOPE—OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY." And

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.