Quotes About Meaning

Buddy said he figured there must be something in poetry if a girl like me spent all her days over it, so each time we met I read him some poetry and explained to him what I found in it.

Le dije que creía en el infierno, y que ciertas personas, como yo, tenían que vivir en el infierno antes de morir, para compensarlo por perderlo después de la muerte, ya que no creían en la vida después de la muerte, y qué cada persona creyó que eso es lo que le pasaba cuando moría.

DEATH IS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING & TROUBLING EXPERIENCES OF LIFE: DEATH-IN-LIFE IS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIBLE STATES OF EXISTENCE: NEUTRALITY, BOREDOM become worse sins than murder, worse than illicit love affairs: BE RIGHT OR WRONG, don't be indifferent, don't be NOTHING . . . MANY POETS, MANY READERS live by poetry as people have lived by religion: BOTH ARE RITUALS, PATTERNS, [that give] special meaning to the most profound experiences of human life.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos.

Los pensamientos grandes y las acciones grandes llevan tanto a tener dinero como significado

Money's not really important." Let me ask you this question: If you said that your husband or your wife, or your boyfriend or your girlfriend, or your partner or your friend, weren't all that important, would any of them be around for long? I don't think so, and neither would money!

nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos».

And what you thought you came for is only a shell, a husk of meaning from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled if at all. Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfillment.

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands';

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.