symbolism, n.Definitions

Symbolism is a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Symbolism is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination and was after all not 'invented' by overambitious psychoanalysis.

Symbolism is there for the writer to use to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

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.