“His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them” ThinkingFeelsLooksFormImaginationStrangeIceSymbolsColourMonumentFreezeIceberg Author:J. D. Salinger
“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.” LifeInspirationalLooksReasonEarthPainForgetStruggleInspirational LifeSymbolsPassagesCalendarsPassage Of Time Book:Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews
“Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.” PeopleLooksCountryPositionInternationalIsraelRecoverySymbolsPersecuted Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.” WritingHumansLooksStillsUseProblemRealizingFiguresSpeechSymbolsAliensHuman LifeStaringComplexityHauntingUneasyFigures Of SpeechComplexity Of Human Book:The Educated Imagination Source: The Educated Imagination
“In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.” IfsLooksDangerousAngelScriptureSymbolsAweSculptureFear NotVictorianVisitation Author:Kathryn Lindskoog