Quotes About Symbolism

I do a death dance, I lay a snake skin…

we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.

The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.

You can't just kill a swan and wrap yourself in its skin, you know. It takes something from you. In her case it took the thing that she wanted most.

why "Six Flags." The six flags refer to the six flags of the countries that flew over Texas in history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America. I have no idea if it's the same way now, but the original park had sections that depicted Texas's time under each particular flag, a conceit that would make less sense as the franchise expanded to places outside of Texas that had no similar multinational history.

Gone with the Wind" are just as decisive as the Oedipus complex

Au Japon, on appelle les embryons avortés « mizuko », les enfants de l'eau.

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or expression. In India, by contrast, we routinely get hysterical if the flag is ever taken out of the boundaries of officialdom.

It was like the Easter Bunny met an agent of death.

perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that others have trampled before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond each other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

He raised his right hand and with a papal cross he blessed the beach from the high terrace.

It was Dick's car, a Renault so dwarfish

road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought — But no, a butterfly. SDC aoyagi no / mayu kaku kishi no / hitai kana2 Green willows Paint eyebrows on the face of the cliff CAC

sakura saku koro / tori ashi nihon / uma shihon2 When cherry trees bloom birds have two legs horses four

a flying squirrel sits chewing on a bird withered field (Yosa Buson`s farewell haiku)