Quotes About Symbolism

unas manchas de sangre tiñeron la nieve; de un rojo brillante a juego con la bandera que ondeaba encima.

The duck swallows the worm

When I die pin me up against the sky.

McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

Its whiteness carried with it a certain kind of elegance, the beauty of maturity and experience, symbol of a long life lived wisely and productively.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance… and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger,Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.

For you there's rosemary and rue; these keepSeeming and savor all the winter long.

And I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse.

The glowworm shows the matin to be near,And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,The Anthropophagi, and men whose headsDo grow beneath their shoulders.

Where's my serpent of old Nile?