171 Quotes About Symbolism

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

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

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

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.

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

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

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

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

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.