Quotes About Symbolism

She'll have to learn the symbolism of the revolution," somebody said. "But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?" I asked.

This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me.

How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

I give you my heart I mean metaphorically Put away that knife

white lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse.

the bones of the church, its carcass and ribs, like medieval poetry—apse, chancel, nave, transept, clerestory, sacristy, misericord—

All good fairy tales have meaning to many levels, Bruno Bettleheim observes in The Uses of Enchantment. Only the child can know which meanings are significance to him at the moment.

you're doing the same thing I am, only more slowly, and less honestly. You drive a car; you use plastic products; you do whatever the hell you do knowing full well that it's contributing to the end of everyone, and a lot of other animals besides. So don't get all more-life-affirming-than-thou with me, missy, you're on your way out too. In a way, you could see me as he canary down a mine shaft, or maybe synecdoche, the small part representing the whole.

Here. He handed the rose to Hanna. Take this one to my niece. Tell her that it would be well for her to remember that the thorns of those words which mislead without lying are small but persistent, and that the white rose which symbolizes purity is also veined with flaws.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Other men may thrill to the sight of Old Glory rippling in the breeze, but for me the library was a better symbol of what I had taken up arms to defend.

No one who'd actually been in the Pocket would believe the explanation, but that didn't matter. We were symbols now, no longer in control of our own stories.

No slouch" was okay, but "any ocean" was definitely preferable - metaphorically speaking.

It was as if the spirit of his first gyre and his last gyre had comingled. Why is the old wolf weeping? Why am I weeping? - Foalan, Star Wolf

I saw that dark patch on her haunch and I knew when she was human, there'd be a birthmark in the same place. I knew what it meant for her. And I knew what it meant for me. Yee naaldlooshii. Skin-walker.

There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book. Now there are two wolves.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

La cathédrale, quant à elle, ressemblait à un chêne au milieu d'un champ d'orties.

The cross identified him as a Catholic: Protestants believed it was superstitious to wear one.