Quotes About Meaning

En ese momento lo que sentía era paz. Y estaba seguro de que mi vida, todo lo que había hecho, me había conducido hasta este preciso y justo momento. Había cumplido con mi razón de ser.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its saying where executivesWould never want to tamper

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

o be entirely honest, I know of nothing quite so boring as Christianity without Christ.

We'll sing and dance and suffer and die, but we'll make lives here. Which is what existence is all about, isn't it?

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung Those branches of the night and day Where the gaudy moon is hung. What's the meaning of all song? "Let all things pass away.

Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.

With us nothing has time to gather meaning, and too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

An aimless joy is a pure joy

What can be explained is not poetry.

I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton

We cannot be deaf to the question: 'Do I love this world so well that I have to know how it ends?

The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.

Here am I, Here are you: but what does it mean? What are we going to do?

For poetry makes nothing happen.