Quotes About Symbolism

Feci presto a imparare a leggere.Tuttavia il mio pensiero si fermò a metà strada. Vedevo nell'immagine grafica l'esatto duplicato del suono che ad essa corrispondeva:emanavano insieme dalla cosa che esprimevano, e pertanto il loro rapporto non aveva nulla di arbitrario. La comprensione del segno non portò con se quella della convenzione.

Niin monet miehet ovat naineet unissaan äitiään.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons.

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

And on the Tree of Life,The middle tree and highest there that grew,Sat like a cormorant.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forc'd fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

In Revelation 18:18 John refers to that "great city," rhetorically asking "was there ever a city like this great city?" Some have wondered why John didn't say "nation" or "country," instead of "city.

Because even before I got there, New York had become a symbol of my liberated self, and I knew that it was in a kind of turbulence that that self must attempt to find itself.

Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy."

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

the tiger is a bellwether--one of thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure. The current moment is proof of our struggle to evolve (perhaps "mature" is a better word) beyond outmoded fears and attitudes, to face the fact that nature is neither our enemy nor our slave.

Tigers go by several different names here, and one of them is Toyota-because, during the 1990's, that is what you could buy with one.

Perladas por la luz de la luna, desnudas y puras, para él representaban, según le parecía, el modo de vida que había adoptado, tal como un templo representa un dios.

If I were asked to answer, in one sentence, the question 'What was Wittgenstein's biggest contribution to philosophy', I should answer 'His asking of the question "Can one play chess without the Queen?

To symbolize is to express time consciousness, for the symbol embodies the structure of time

Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.