Quotes About Interpretation

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the languages of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music.

Remember too that to me the word myth, like the words fable and fiction, is a technical term in criticism, and the popular sense in which it means something untrue I regard as a debasing of language.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Der wahre Leser muss der erweiterte Autor sein.

Simbolicul incit?, stimuleaz? - înduio??torul emo?ioneaz? ?i mi?c?.

Analyse politique? c'est au dela de l'observation directe, l'interpretation factuelle et evenementielle c'est savoir discerner ce qui fait sensation et essayer de comprendre ce qui sous-tend l'apparente realite qui frappe nos sens de plein fouet

i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions

Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading in itself. Following the lines of something — not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend — becoming surefooted on the high-wire of the author's intention.

What's more, she gives shapes to the links between words and their meanings, and then fits them into chains of her own choosing.

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Kelimeler, albay?m, baz? anlamlara gelmiyor.

Beni hemen anlamal?s?n, çünkü ben kitap de?ilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, ya?arken anla??lmaya mecburum.

Anlat?lsayd? de?eri kalmazd? ki. Bu nedenle anlat?lamazd?. Bu "?ey"i birine verseniz de fark?nda olmaz asl?nda. ?nsan uzun uzun anlatsa, "onun" kendine güven verdi?ini söylese, merak ederler belki. Fakat görünce bir "?ey"e benzetemezler muhakkak. Bu muydu, derler o "?ey". Verdi?iyle kal?r insan. Ezer, buru?turur, yere atarlar.

Tarih bir tahriften ibarettir. Tarih, geçmi?ten gelece?e uzanan ve bugün gördü?ümüz bir rüyad?r. Bütün rüyalar gibi tarih de yorumlanabilir; ama görülürken de?il.

Demek insanlar? gerçek ve do?ru biçimde yorumlamak için onlar?n ölmelerini beklemek gerekiyordu.

??te ?ehirlerin katlar? birbirine kar???yor, i?te arkeolog-kar?ncalar! Her ?eyi yerli yerine yerle?tiriyorlar, i?te onlar?n sayesinde her ?ey Birdenbire anlam kazan?yor: Dört ta? bir ?ehir, yirmi iki kupon bedava bir apartman kat? oluyor, i?te yer levhalar?, i?te Yunanca, Latince ve bizim dilce.

Ben de sayfalar?n?z? çevirebilecek kadar notadan anlamak isterdim." dedi Turgut.

Tarih gibi bo?anmalar da zaman zaman yeniden yorumlan?r.