Quotes About Symbolism

I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.

Down there came a fallow doeAs great with young as she might go.

An egg is dear on Easter Day.

Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.

Styrofoam tombstones around the stage and angles the microwave-box-turned-sarcophagus so the audience can read its epitaph: Aethon: Lived 80 Years a Man, 1

The hallowed Hodegetria has failed; the Mother of God has forsaken them; the beast of the apocalypse rises from the sea. The Antichrist scratches at the gate. Time is a circle, Licinius used to say, and every circle eventually must close.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

?????, ornis, it means both bird and omen—

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

he had the head chopped off and sent to Rome to be thrown at the feet of a statue of Julius Caesar.

Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you'd achieved would one day fit inside.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

The flag of SP means the flag of goons. BSP's flag means the flag of corruption.

The Coup does not support the American flag.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

I can tell you the flag we get behind. It's the American flag.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.