Quotes About Meaning

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.