Quotes about Meaning
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
— Ernest Hemingway
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