Love Symbol

Famous quotes containing the words love and/or symbol:

“I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)