Symbols - What does heaven look like
Clay
The word clay is used in numerous texts to mean form, but more specifically the body. Thus we will find clay pots, clay vessels or just… clay. See also Pitcher and jug.
It is an ideal symbol as one can combine it with the idea of filling it with wine.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Between the form of life and life The difference is as big As liquor at the lip between And liquor in the jug The latter – excellent to keep But for ecstatic need The corkless is superior I know for I have tried
Painting by author of website – ‘Jugs’ |
Observations
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- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - Zayd's clay
- Ancestors, the - Art - Beakers
- Ancient Egyptian - The Creation Myth of Heliopolis
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell - A Clock striking Midnight
- Blake, William - Love seeketh not itself to please
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 09 3
- Clare, John - As a bud green in Spring, As a rose blown in June
- Comenius - On Death
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 13 Little Gidding I
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Give all to Love
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer - The winged soul
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Creation
- Gnostic Gospels - 'Peter'
- Gnostic Gospels - Philip - Glass goblets and pottery jugs
- Goethe - Selected poems - Have you wishes without number
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Soliloquy
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay
- Hesiod - Works and Days - The story of Pandora
- Jakob Grimm - Journal for hermits - The Golem
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 130 Section 12
- Johann Simon Mayr - The Zibaldone - Songlines
- Kabir - Inside this clay jug there are canyons
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1
- Lalla - I’m towing my boat across the ocean
- London Bridge is falling down
- Lowell, James Russell - Now I can see thee clearly The dusky cloud of clay
- Magritte, Rene - Beautiful World
- Mattheson, Johann and celestial music
- Michelangelo - Sonnet LIV - From thy fair face I learn
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal Bunjil
- Nerval, Gerard de - Myrtle
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Discourse on the excellence of song
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Discourse 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Discourse 02
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Ogotemmeli - The Smith and the Potter
- Ogotommeli - Water and Copper
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - On the Air of Heaven Ride
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The Potter
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Dreaming when Dawn's left hand was in the sky
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The flower that once has blown for ever dies
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The last Dawn of Reckoning
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The Potter
- Qu’ran - The Ages of Man - Surah Al An’am
- Rafferty, Gerry - Another World – 09 Metanoia
- Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 12
- Rig Veda - The House of Clay
- Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - The Potter
- Rudd, Xavier - The Letter
- Rumi - Love Poems - Bough and leaf set free from the earth
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 02 from the Panegyric of the Padsham of Islam
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - Look at the drops of rain rising up from this sea
- Shakespeare, William - Merchant of Venice Act V scene 1
- Shuruppak - Atrahasis - Tablet 1
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - In Memoriam A H H - I trust I have not wasted breath
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Explore thyself
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - What is man but a mass of thawing clay
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Solitude II
- Tzu, Lao - Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub
- Watson, Sir William - Lachrymae Musarum - What needs his laurel our ephemeral tears
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - I hear the shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Images
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 07