Famous quotes containing the words sun and/or symbol:
“The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“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)
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