Quotes About Meaning

small talk comes from small bones

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

La gran literatura no es más que el lenguaje cargado de sentido hasta el grado máximo que sea posible.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Incompetence will show in the use of too many words. The reader's first and simplest test of an author will be to look for words that do not function; that contribute nothing to the meaning OR that distract from the MOST important factor of the meaning to factors of minor importance.

Another point miscomprehended by people who are clumsy at languages is that one does not need to learn a whole language in order to understand some one or some dozen poems. It is often enough to understand throroughly the poem, and every one of the few dozen of few hundred words that compose it.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Under a hermeneutic that is more culturally sensitive than biblically sensitive, meaning and understanding of Scripture can be no more than illusive mirage, incapable of being grasped. For with each change in culture comes a new context, and with each change in context comes a new truth.

The acronym was derived from the title of the first book--a pamphlet, really-- in which Khyfo was expounded, a supposedly scatalogical phase that meant 'Don't Touch'... The title was Keep Your Fucking Hands Off. Mean anything to you? Not a thing. Nor to me. But it supposedly summed up their philosophy pretty well at the time.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Tom Waits, Nighthawks On The Radio. E é sintomático que Waits cite o maldito Bukowski: sua voz poderosa se transforma ocasionalmente num grunhido disforme, as palavras são praticamente vomitadas num dialeto que, por incrível que pareça (ou não), acabam por transcender seu próprio significado. Poesia musical em estado bruto...

had learned what the saying meant at Spook School, and thought it was silly, as testicles were small, easy to remove, and easily injured.

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course. Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

I traveled to the page where scripture meets fiction. The paper slept but the night in me woke up. Black letters were now alive and collectible in a material crawl. I could not decipher their intentions anymore. To what end did their shapes come forth? To seduce or speak truth?

The point of art is to show people that life is worth living by showing that it isn't

Philosophy should only be written as poetry.

Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around enough - a the world, in history - to ask the deepest and broadest questions. The solution surely is that, even now, we could all use a little bit more of a liberal education.

We know our way of thinking is considered antiquated, as dated as an Edsel. But to me, it has meaning.

Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.