Quotes About Interpretation

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.