There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
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.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.