Ethan Canin Quotes

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

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• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
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• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Book
  • Eyes
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• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Poets

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
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• I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Me

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
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• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
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• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Meaning
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• Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Meaning
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• Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Reason
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• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Real
  • Lost
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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  

  Plato
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  • Dithyrambs

• What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Joy

• There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • America
  • Politics
  • Tradition

• A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Needs
  • Musician
  • Chords

• I deal with my actors as if they were my friends and people I love. They want to make me feel good and make me happy, and I want to make them happy. We are not in a professional relationship, we are in a passionate relationship.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Actors

• I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Meaning
  • Poets