Meaning

Famous quotes containing the word meaning:

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“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 novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)