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Symbolist

noun

A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.

Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols. Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer.

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"Symbolist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Philip Sidney give the reason and scope of this collection of examples of the poetry of the present century. No attempt at arbitrary classification or labelling has been made; it is not intended to show that any poet, deliberately or otherwise, is a Neo-Symbolist or Paroxyst or is afflicted with any other 'ist or 'ism; it is not compiled to assert that any one group of poets is superior to any other group of poets or to poets who had the misfortune to have their corporeal existence cut short ...

— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various

... that soul which, feeling compelled by its intuitions to recognise the essential divinity of man, yet find no expression in the churches which will fit into its emotional nature? What of him whom, for want of a better word, I shall call a Symbolist, who is always striving to express in some form of art or thought, that divine energy which is wisdom, consciousness, and energy all in one? Does not Theosoophy afford the very best outlet for his soul force? Are not its ideas on a level ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... anything at all about this great symbolist, it is this: that he regarded only subjective realities as realities, as "truths"—that he saw everything else, everything natural, temporal, spatial and historical, merely as signs, as materials for parables. The concept of "the Son of God" does not connote ...

— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche