Quotes About Meaning

You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.