Quotes About Connotation

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

O! be some other name: What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.

Everything means something.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.

because you symbolize his cockeyed

If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes