Quotes about Symbolism

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Art is the signature of man.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.