Quotes about Meaning
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
- Marty Rubin
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
- Maya Angelou
What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
- Max Lucado
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
- Harold S. Kushner
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- William Barclay