Quotes About Interpretation

Cada poema es único. En cada obra late, con mayor o menor grado, toda la poesía. Cada lector busca algo en el poema. Y no es insólito que lo encuentre: Ya lo llevaba dentro.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

Your life is always speaking to (for) you.

every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.

Painting taught literature to describe.

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?

The past is always an invented land.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.

De hecho, ¿qué es leer sino dibujar en el silencioso cinematógrafo de nuestra mente una de las cosas que el escritor nos describe con letras?

You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life.

el arte que es simplemente malo ni siquiera es capaz de provocarnos repugnancia.

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind. MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

As?l olan hikâyedir. [...] Güzel bir resim bir hikâyeyi zarafetle tamamlar.

What is it to be a color? Color is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness.

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

Una carta no dice lo que quiere decir sólo con lo que está escrito. Las cartas, como los libros, se leen también oliéndolas, tocándolas, manoseándolas.

yo no quiero ser un árbol, sino su significado.

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.

I tako, što više bojim, ja kao da svijetu kazujem budi i svijet biva iz moje boje krvi. Onaj koji ne vidi, taj pori?e, ali mene ima svuda.