Quotes About Meaning

Some day they will know what I mean.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

Evil spelled backward is live.

We also serve who only punctuate.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.

Every why hath a wherefore.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.