Quotes About Symbolism

The Indian tricolour was raised just before sunset, and as it fluttered up the flagpole a late-monsoon rainbow emerged behind it, a glittering tribute from the heavens.

Talk about burning the flag and he gets all choked up. Funny, so many of these guys think the country stands for the flag instead of the other way around.

Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands.

There are so many new skyscrapers being built in our city of rain, I wonder if everybody's spirit animal is now the construction crane.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I've heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," Gilan said. "But I never knew the inkwell could be mightier than the dagger.

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

And what's a buterfly? At best, He's but a ceterpillar, drest.

Palm branches were symbolic of national hope for Jerusalem. The date palm was abundant in Israel and one of the staple products of the economy. Soon after this time, date palms were portrayed on coins stamped by the rebels against Rome. In the early spring in Jerusalem, the branches of palm trees were still small. Cloaks were used to spread in front of a king as early as 2 Kings 9:13.

If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods in ways that cannot be reduced to the conscious intentions of their creators and cannot be wholly controllable and predictable in their efffects.

Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.

Al señor Evans le gustaría que dibujaseis vuestro autorretrato —anunció—. Algo que muestre cómo os veis a vosotros mismos. [...] No había dejado de usar el lápiz negro, y lo que había creado era muy revelador: un par de manos agarradas a unos barrotes que cruzaban de arriba a abajo la hoja. No había cara ni cuerpo. Sólo dedos aferrados a gruesos barrotes negros.