Quotes About Symbolism

Sometimes owls came near to warn of death. Sometimes they just asked people to be careful. Sometimes they were just owls.

He asks wether Christians eat gold. Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku. Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.

Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to link women with earth, matter, and nature, while identifying males with sky, intellect, and transcendent spirit.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.

Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free—

The Viceroy possessed no name – nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alphabet after them.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.

A name, Ruth thought, could be either a ghost or a portent depending upon which side of time you were standing.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet.

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.

we can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse

Reality can have metaphorical content; that does not make it less real.

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

do you marry her. You marry a money-bag label, it is true; well, but what does that matter? It is better to have a blazon less and a figure more on it.

ni?an kurdelesini takm?? bir komiser art?k bir insan de?ildir, yasan?n so?uk, sa??r ve dilsiz heykelidir.

Dac? florile înseamn? libertate, relu? cu tristeÈ›e osânditul, atunci înseamn? c? libertatea o am, de vreme ce am florile.

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.