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Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. — Seth Adam Smith

From time immemorial, symbolism and poetry have been inseparable. Like a pirate and his rum. — Haruki Murakami

holy, holy, holy dawn. my hips rocking into your face. the edge inviting. your name like dry wine on my tongue. your name branded into my inner thigh. — Taylor Rhodes

The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality. — Seth Adam Smith

The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form. — Shirin Neshat

Sometimes symbolism is too obvious. — Mihail Sebastian

He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism ... — Walter J. Moore

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — C.S. Lewis

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. — Jesse Jackson

She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to. — Jenny Hubbard

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. — Aaron Eckhart

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro

It began in images and it ended in symbolism. — B.W. Powe

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death. — Mike Dickenson

When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism. — Joe Dunthorne

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it. — Judith Martin

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea. — Kurt Vonnegut

Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol. — Brandi L. Bates

Anyone who symbolizes himself a hater in anything
deserves no love at all — Muhammad Danish Rizwan

It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the death of all dogs. — Neil Gaiman

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron

The poetics of politics had to be observed. — Tom Clancy

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity! — Eli Of Kittim

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110) — Prem Prakash

(Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater. — Robert A. Caro

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. — Mason Cooley

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. — Grant Morrison

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. — Thomas C. Foster

All religious expression is symbolism. — Albert Pike

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth! — Aldous Huxley

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words. — Patrick O'Brian

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't. — Roger Ebert

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. — Ashly Lorenzana

I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368). — Jorge Amado

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death — Melissa De La Cruz

The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

No symbols where none intended. — Samuel Beckett

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. — Hassan Blasim

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry. — Paul Emsley

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt. — Michael Tsarion

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory? — Eli Of Kittim

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic? — Steve Jobs

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image. — Sebastiao Salgado

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things? — Carol Berg

The symbolism of the Garter, a circlet to bind the Knight-Companions mutually, and all of them jointly to the King as head of the Order. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible! — Seth Adam Smith

This is the worst of our ways of remembering
this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. — Kamila Shamsie

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. — A. E. Waite

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on — Abraham Lincoln

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same. — Jessica Stern

A fundamental error in many Christian attacks on Harry Potter has been a narrow, simplistic reading of symbolism. — Travis Prinzi

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. — Arthur C. Clarke

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead

Understanding is strictly forbidden. Even dreams have the right to dream. — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream." — Carl Jung

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um ... sometimes a duck is just a duck!
Mr. Tushman — R.J. Palacio

Witchcraft promotes the advantages of learning and applying new symbolism into one's psyche, this is the witches code. — Gede Parma

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. — Chino Moreno

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious ceremonial nowadays provides less opportunity for bad language and sexual symbolism. — Aubrey De Selincourt

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love. - Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil. — Tami Hoag

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love. — Karl Petzke

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

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Are you Catholic?" "Recovering," he admitted. "Me, too. The symbolism, though - " "It still resonates." "Yeah. — Blair Babylon

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. — Anton Ehrenzweig

I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. — Ron Swanson

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. — Franz Grillparzer

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these. — Ashly Lorenzana

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. — Nadeem Aslam

Live? Our servants will do that for us.. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Given a choice between discussing the symbolism of a pig head on a stick and discussing my feelings, I'll take the pig head every time. — Michael Thomas Ford

In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top. — William Butler Yeats

Red roses symbolizes love. Thorns will hurt you and red roses consists of thorns. — Monika Ramzy

An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer. — Chris F. Westbury

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes. — Haruki Murakami

We're actors - we're the opposite of people! — Tom Stoppard