Quotes About Meaning

To God, the right kind of human life looks well-meant but incompetent. Zeal is more important than technique.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

La vida es una borrachera. El único hombre sobrio es el melancólico que, desencantado, contempla la vida, ve cómo es y se corta el gaznate. Si es así, quiero estar muy borracho. Lo importante es vivir, agarrarnos a nuestra existencia y salir corriendo con ella en una búsqueda intensa y apasionante.

Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live

The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.

what I live for I can seldom believe in

turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.