Quotes About Interpretation

She had been forced to accept the idea that what was true, and what couldn't possibly be, were ideas that depended on which life you lived - on which lives you lived.

It's interesting that, there really is no Proverbs 31 for men in the Bible. Men need the whole Bible, women need a chapter.

Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

Maybe every talk about poetry is a defense of poetry...

As Zen practitioners might say. two people looking at the same mountain are not seeing the same mountain, and so poetic "worldliness" can take an infinite number of versions: the sensibility of an individual artist is as distinct as a fingerprint.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Speak then, dear lady. I am a field of corn." "Field of corn?" "All ears.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I don't see music as working.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

It's the unexpressed that interests me, he thought. I've been drawing too explicitly; it's a mistake to clarify everything.

if words lie face down there's a chance they might change during the night; you may suddenly come to see them with a new eye, perhaps with a rapid flash of insight. It is conceivable.

Pappan tystnade och började bekymrad bläddra i memoarerna. Tycker ni jag har använt för ovanliga ord? frågade han. Det gör nog inget, sa Mumintrollet. Det var ju för så länge sen och man kan nästan gissa vad du menar.

Grandmother thought for a moment, and then she said that superstitious was when you didn't try to explain things that couldn't be explained.

Toute nature morte, tout paysage, tout n'est qu'autoportrait.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

I tried to tell people about it, but I was drunk: they thought I was talking in riddles or metaphors.