Quotes for All
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We’re putting it into pamphlets. We’re doing a publicity show. We’re becoming symbols. Gael Garcia Bernal
Out, damned spot! That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol – the suffering of Deity. G. Campbell Morgan
Poetry is a very complex art…. It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Ezra Pound
The natural object is always the adequate symbol. Ezra Pound
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don’t use such an expression as ‘dim land of peace.’ It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer’s not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction. Ezra Pound
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse … Read more
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. Evelyn Underhill
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader. Evelyn Underhill
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. Ezola B. Foster
Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person’s relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what we do for a living, is often one of the first pieces of information we give to others about ourselves. It’s so important, in fact, that most married people wear a symbol of … Read more