Quotes About Meaning

What do you want?" and so on might be a few of the questions asked and responded to.

Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life.

intrinsically vulgar, depraved, or morbid. That's as may be. "Using" is inferior to "reception" because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it.7

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.