Quotes About Symbolism

I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Nothing had changed about her except that she was wearing two feathers in her hair instead of one.

Symbolism, originally intended as a countermovement to naturalism, actually turned out to be a variation of it rather than its antithesis.

The ideal of musicality belongs to the stylistic layer of Symbolism, for music in literature is a function of language, of style. It is the stylistic element which is the most deeply rooted in the aesthetics and value-hierarchy of the Symbolist movement, and one which graphically illustrates the interrelatedness of ideas and of style, and the possibility of expressing ideas through the medium of art.

He'd homed in on that flag issue, the flags-and-emblems issue, instinctive and emotional because flags were invented to be instinctive and emotional – often pathologically, narcissistically emotional – and he meant that flag of the country from 'over the water' which was also the same flag of the community from 'over the road'. It was not a flag greatly welcomed in our community. Not a flag at all welcomed in our community

there were sunsets every day, that we weren't meant to be coffined and buried whilst all the time still living, that nothing of the dark was so enormous that never could we surmount it, that always there were new chapters, that we must let go the old, open ourselves to symbolism, to the most unexpected of interpretations, that we must too, uncover what we've kept hidden, what we think we might have lost.

Wiser councils prevailed, and today a solitary Khmelnytsky slices the uncomplaining air on a traffic island outside Santa Sofia Cathedral. It is hard to make out

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs? This

It is a black-and-white photograph showing a naked young man in fetal position. He has entitled it "No Tail!" The fantastic fingerwork of his wings is outspread on the bed like a black lace map of South America.

What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase. I don't know. I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache, no help there.

It was Sappho who likened a girl to an apple … and compared a bridegroom to Achilles. (Orationes 9.16)

In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband's arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

A pink fluttering bird flew across her mind.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Ik zag geen bietebauw, maar wel waren de geesten van de pokkedoden van Antwerpen in de vorm van een zwerm spreeuwen in de kastanjeboom neergestreken. Met hun honderden zwarte lijfjes zetten ze de boom voortijdig in blad. Ze vlogen in slierten op en streken opnieuw neer alsof ze vastzaten aan een laken dat door een reuzenvrouw werd opgeschud.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

Some women marry houses.

No. Not really red, but the color of a rose when it bleeds.

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.