Quotes About Meaning

You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

If Hell is where nothing connects, then being in the field of English must be the key to heaven's door! We are in the business of finding connections--within texts, between texts and contexts, between texts and ourselves, between our readings and the readings of other interpreters.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence...

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, And approach to the meaning restores the experience In a different form, beyond any meaning

A restless shivering painted shadow In life, she is less than a shadow in death.

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

A people without religion will in the end find out that it has nothing to live for.

Em uma peça de Shakespeare, podemos obter vários graus de significado. Para o público mais simples há a trama; para os mais instruídos, o caráter e o conflito dos personagens; para o mais literário, as palavras e as frases; para os dotados de maior sensibilidade musical, o ritmo, e para os de maior sensibilidade e capacidade de entender, um significado que se revela gradualmente.

What is man to decide what poetry is?

Harry has crossed the frontier Beyond which safety and danger have a different meaning. And he cannot return. That is his privilege. For those who live in this world, this world only

For him the death is now only on this side, For him, danger and safety have another meaning.

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

I suspect, in fact, that a good deal of the value of an interpretation is -- that it should be my own interpretation.

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer?

Would it have been worthwhile If one settling a pillow by her head should say: That is not what I meant at all That is not it at all

Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him.

Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape...there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor

And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter.

And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling.

Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.

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