Quotes About Interpretation

Language alone is one of the worst means of expressing form, while drawing is incomparably the best.

It is an optical fact that no two persons ever saw the same rainbow, and it is equally true that no two men ever saw the same appearance in any object.

Ideally, poetry in translation should one day lead a reader to a reading of the poem in the original tongue. The poem in its native phonemes, we often forget, was primarily a poem, and a good one, presumably, if chosen for translation. A poem in translation should be faithful, if to anything, to this primary quality of the original—that of its being an effective poem.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

For me, black and white is more realistic than colour. Black and white can be colourful, and colour can be very black and white.

a word we make to mean whatever we want it to mean. Spirituality, Eugene averred, was "Christ, the God-revealing Christ, who is behind and in all of this living.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.

I must thank the Hon. Gentleman for making me acquainted with the word "outwith," with which I had not previously had the pleasure of making acquaintance. For the benefit of English Members I may say that it is translated "outside the scope of." I thought it was a misprint at first.

Sin embargo, ninguna de estas alternativas, tomadas por separado, eran ciertas; aunque, tomadas en conjunto, hubiese cierto punto de verdad en ambas.

So what can they tell us, the writers of dream books, the scholars of oneiric signs and omens, the doctors with couches for analyses— if anything fits, it's accidental, and for one reason only, that in our dreamings, in their shadowings and gleamings, in their multiplings, inconceivablings, in their haphazardings and widescatterings at times even a clear-cut meaning may slip through.

Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?

Even boredom must be described with passion.

All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.

Ile? zdaÅ" mo?na utworzy? z dwudziestu czterech liter alfabetu? Ile? znaczeÅ" mo?na wyprowadzi? z setek chwastów, grudek i innych drobiazgów?

Koniec i bomba, a kto czyta? ten tr?ba!

We were inclined to believe that the nose was not for the snuff box but the snuff box for the nose.

By?em kiedy? obecny przy dyskusji Kotta - czy nie z Breiterem? - na temat co chcia? powiedzie? X w swoim ostatnim utworze. Ciskali w siebie cytatami. Zaproponowa?em, ?eby go zapytali przez telefon i nawet da?em im numer. Zamilkli, a po chwili zacz?li rozmawia? o czym innym - gdy problem zosta? zredukowany do telefonicznego pytania, przesta? ich interesowa?.

Fryderyk najuprzejmiej gaw?dzi? z pani? Mari? — czy jednak podtrzymywa? rozmow? aby czego? innego nie powiedzie??

Ã…Å¡niadanie w Hermitage z przypadkowo poznanym A. i jego ?onÄ…. Jedzenie zalatuje - proszÄ™ wybaczy? - bardzo luksusowym klozetem, wÅ'aÅ›ciwie nie wiem dlaczego ale, kiedy zawisÅ'em na krawÄ™dzi tych apetycznych frykasów, w gÄ™stej dystynkcji kelnerów, byÅ'bym przysiÄ…gÅ', ?e to klozet. ZresztÄ… spa? mi siÄ™ chciaÅ'o. Mo?e dlatego.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.