Quotes About Symbolism

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

the same metaphors and themes sound again and again in mystic discourse, like a muffled peal of bells in English change-ringing.

It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes before, but sees him only from behind as the figure stepping out ahead. His humanity is veiled in his Leader's form.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?

Quando regaliamo una bambola a una bambina, le regaliamo la morte - è l'effige e il sudario; quando una donna la regala a una donna, è la vita che esse non possono avere, è la loro figlia, sacra e profana.»

Samo su sitne ptice Å¡arene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California is its face, New York is its brain and Texas is its heart. If you wanna know what makes America tick, get your ten-gallon hat on, and get yourself to Texas.

But in my mind tractors are like penises. They cannot be too big.

You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses.

Contrary to common sense there is no unique "real world" that pre-exists and is independent of human mental activity and human symbolic language; that which we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world.

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.