Symbols Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Symbols
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through. — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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