#meaning

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #every #himself #indignation #into

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#give #hatred #life #meaning #passionate

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#america #cannot #doing #energy #energy security

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#every #line #meaning #story #tells

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#each #know #knowing #love #loving

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. ↗

— David Antin

#before #between #children #distinction #frequently

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#becomes #concepts #his #longer #lost