Quotes About Significance

What I say has no value if you do not love, enjoy, or admire it.

Information has more power than any atom bomb.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever?

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

When people have nothing positive or negative to say about you, it means you don't exist

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters