Quotes About Interpretation

Theological Seminary, points out that the sin of Sodom is mentioned several times elsewhere in the Bible, but never in connection with homosexual acts.

Whatever theory of interpretation people use powerfully affects how they understand Scripture. Common Sense philosophy and Turretin's theology allowed seemingly good, intelligent, devout people to ignore the basic principles and lessons of Scripture and to brutalize other human beings by enslaving them.

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

We needed fish, really, but I could not speak Fish.

Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.

There is no right or wrong; there is no one truth, there are lots of truths. And you girls should translate the world into as many different languages as possible. If you see the world in just one language, your world becomes too small.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

Each person has his or her own Bible.

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Conocemos únicamente el producto final de nuestro procesamiento cerebral pero lo confundimos con la Realidad en sí.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.

We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

There is nothing outside of the text.