Quotes About Interpretation

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

Theory is intermodal, theory is the concept of art.

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.

History should be written as philosophy.

I knew we were supposed to bark because CJ was always angry when someone knocked. "Hey! Stop! Quiet! Enough!" she would yell. I didn't understand the words, but the meaning was clear: she was upset with the knocking and we should keep barking.

And why did she even wind up with that impression? He tried to think of what he might have said to imply such a thing. Could his expression really have been so mournful when Kerri had asked him about the blonde in the photograph that Kerri could only conclude Amanda was dead?

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its saying where executivesWould never want to tamper

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.

There is no priest to interpret it or monopolize the performance of ritual actions, as in some other religions. This is also a reason why translations are not installed in gurdwaras and Sikhs insist on the importance of the original language, for all translations are interpretations to some extent. It is the message contained in the book that matters.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked

tradition gives the one thing many shapes.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

and that he delighted in Flaubert and Pater, read Homer in the original and not as a schoolmaster reads him for the grammar.