Symbolism Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Example, Circumcision, Hebrew

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Powerful, Towers, Half

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Different, Use, Way

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• 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

  Photography, Able, Language

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• A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Book, Commitment

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• Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

  John McCain

  Differences, Pork, Doe

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• ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Memories, Compassion, Curves

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• The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Loneliness, Artist

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• I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

  Tavis Smiley

  I Love Him, People, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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