“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
“Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.” — Karl Petzke Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
