Quotes About Interpretation

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konu?uruz... - Olmad?, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konu?uyorsunuz... Alg? yoksa, dü?ünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta ayn? ?ekilde, ?iir, konu?an resimdir... Resimse, Senyör Orazio, sessiz ?iirdir.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.

La ponctuation, ce n'est pas de l'orthographe, c'est de la pensée.

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

The English or American lawyer investigates what was done, the French lawyer what was most likely intended. One wants decisions; the other, reasons.

Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'

Whatever is decoded dies

People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find A meaning suited to his mind.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

If we speak plainly, without metaphors or symbols, we cannot escape common sense. Metaphors and symbols can be abused.

If the Crusades were not politics, we should have to narrow the meaning of the word very considerably.

Piping a simple song for thinking hearts, is all very well. But it will not do to say, or to suggest, or to allow it to be inferred, that doing this makes a man as great a poet.

Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry of the lowliest kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression. No poet of much account is ever obscure, unless the text happens to be corrupt.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

We all have our spectacles, but no one can tell to a shade the colour of the glass.