Meaning

Famous quotes containing the word meaning:

“Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 2:12.

Elisha of Elijah, meaning he is more important than these.

“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman’s glove,
Then sicken inclusively outwards:
. . . the incessant recital
Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms,
Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning’s rebuttal:
For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)