Quotes About Meaning

Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

A human life is poetry written in our heart.

My purpose to be is the purpose of the universe.

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.

Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.

Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love, there was no reason to live.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.