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Symbolism is language and not truth, a means of expression and not a body of doctrine, not something to look at but something to look and speak through, a dramatic mask.
Symbolism is language and not truth, a means of expression and not a body of doctrine, not something to look at but something to look and speak through, a dramatic mask.
Symbolism is there for the writer to use to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
Symbolism is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination and was after all not 'invented' by overambitious psychoanalysis.