Famous quotes containing the words start and/or symbol:
“Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
“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 (18651939)
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