Quotes About Understanding

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

How can you find answers, if you do not ask questions?

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

I love you all - if you are not people!

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

If you love me, Henry, you don't love me in a way I understand.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.