Quotes About Interpretation

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool--and I'm not any of those--to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Sometimes I cannot state what race they are speaking my fingers"

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Najgore je kad ljudi ?ute, kad se ne objasne, pa svaka sumnja ima pravo na život. I moja i tvoja.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

sve ima svoju suprotnu stranu i ljudski duh, živ i uznemiren poželi da prevrne svaku stvar da joj vidi nali?je pitaju?i se da to možda nije lice

Do you know what I was thinking while you spoke? That some people can say whatever they want, and whether you agree or not, it doesn't upset you. Others throw themselves into a single word, and suddenly everything glows red-hot and no one can keep calm. We sense that something important is happening. That's no longer conversation.

Ali nikad ne znamo što izazivamo u drugom ?ovjeku rije?ju koja za nas ima sasvim odre?eno zna?enje i zadovoljava samo našu potrebu.

Jer ništa nije ni dobro ni r?avo, nego ga naše mišljenje ?ini takvim.

Slušalac je babica u teškom poro?aju re?i. Ili nešto još važnije. Ako taj drugi želi da razume.

Nisu govorili o svojoj ljubavi, ve? o tu?oj, a to je isto. Ona je govorila evropske ljubavne stihove, on isto?ne, a to je isto. Nikad im tu?e rije?i nisu bile potrebnije, a to je isto, kao da su izmišljali svoje.

So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go.

Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

Gil me ha dicho que para traducir bien tienes que ser un camaleón, ponerte en la piel de otra persona, meterte en tu cabeza. He visto esa transformación en él; da la sensación de que sus rasgos, y a veces su personalidad, cambian con cada voz que adopta, con cada libro.

We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm

If the twenty-first century taught you anything, it was that your words belonged to everyone, even if they actually didn't.