Quotes About Symbolism

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

I should like to be a horse.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

I call the right axe Sorrow, " she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.