Quotes About Symbolism

ROTA TARO ORAT TORA ATOR The wheel of Tarot speaks the law of Hathor.

The Major and Minor Arcana into which the deck is divided are "arks," or containers that, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, "hold the great secret of nature that alchemists sought to find," the concealed knowledge of the self.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

When I am dead and opened, you shall find "Calais" lying in my heart.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Elle porte de grosse chaussures tristes - des sandales de nonne -, idéales pour écraser les rêves.

Tu cuerpo se parece, hasta confundirse con él, a ese árbol frutal que tiene la particularidad de no producir más que dos frutos por vida. Cuentan que si te duermes entre sus ramas te despiertas enamorado.

Endorfina se cala un Camel light entre los rubíes que le sirven de labios y exhala un cúmulo para Playmóbiles. Me gustaría ser un Camel light: rodar entre sus dedos, atravesar su paladar de princesa, trasformarme en humo ligero y descender haciendo rápel por su esófago, lamer sus senos desde dentro antes de acabar convertido en una flor de alquitrán plantada en sus pulmones.

Dai, vieni mio albero in fiore, stasera spegneremo la luce e sui tuoi boccioli poserò gli occhiali. Con la punta dei rami segnerai la volta celeste e scuoterai il tronco invisibile che sostiene la luna. Nuovi sogni cadranno ai nostri piedi come neve tiepida. Pianterai a terra le tue radici a forma di tacchi a spillo, che faranno saldamente presa. Lascia che mi arrampichi sul tuo cuore di bambù, voglio dormire accanto a te.

Lightning – heron-cry stabs darkness.

Me pregunté por qué, puestos a tener banderas, no escogían una con un dibujo erótico.

el catolicismo es un tipo de cristianismo para humanos a los que les gusta el pan de oro, el latín y la culpa.

By doing this, apparently they have earned the right to change its name to "beef," which is the monosyllable furthest away from "cow," because the last thing a human wants to think about when eating cow is an actual cow.

Nora stared down at the small mole on her left hand. That mole had been through everything she'd been through. And it just stayed there, not caring. Just being a mole.

I was later to realize that a neatly trimmed lawn was a powerful signifier and should have commanded in me a slight sense of fear and respect, especially in conjunction

Dramatically and effectively, the Times article established symbolic and social linkages between blacks and poor whites and assigned responsibility for the disease to both.

In the Randian cosmology the dollar replaced the crucifix. Christianity, she said, is "the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal.

a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor

Images, similars, signs, correspondences, and coincidences infer a different way to look at the world; they give rise to a different kind of knowledge.

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary…

The origin of language is mythic; that is, there is always a language before language, which is perception.

It is only withln the perceived world that we can understand that ail corporeality is already symbolism.

The Umwelt is less and less oriented toward a goal and more and more toward the interpretation of symbols.

I do not perceive simply "things" but also use-objects: an article of clothing, for example...Nerve functioning distributes not only spatial and chromatic values but also symbolic values.