Symbolism Quotes

"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams." "A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage " "Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you" "Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust Cloud-dust Storm-dust And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale" "A curve is more powerful than a sword" "It’s a metaphor see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth but you don’t give it the power to do its killing" "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "I come here as a sign of hope; I come here as a sign of unity." "I’m the keeper of the flame" "The mind-forg’d manacles I hear" "What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul" "The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth" "O Rose thou art sick" "The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war" "Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes" "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" "A heap of broken images, where the sun beats" "These fragments I have shored against my ruins" "Everything is a symbol of something else." "Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws"