Quotes About Interpretation

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

Style can make complicated things seem simple, or simple things complicated.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Art is science made clear.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning.

Mi s-a p?rut c? am în?eles, înc? din acea perioad?, c? oamenii, evenimentele, istoria sunt întotdeauna ambigui ?i c? acordul spiritelor este arareori altceva decât o neîn?elegere binecuvântat? de zei.

Universul era o juxtapunere sau o întrep?trundere de mecanisme opace ?i de comportamente care luptau adeseori între ele ?i care se aranjau cum puteau. Ele se n??teau din hazard ?i necesitate, din educa?ie, din clasele sociale, din realit??ile economice, din ereditate ?i din mediu. Putea surveni orice, dar psihanaliza ?i marxismul sfâr?eau mereu prin a interpreta totul. Nu se mai încerca s? se în?eleag?, se explica.

Descopeream c? lumea avea multe înf??i??ri care se negau una pe cealalt? ?i c? nu era nimic altceva decât un m?nunchi de puncte de vedere reciproce care se cuprindeau succesiv.

Tradi?iile nu câ?tig? nimic când sunt prea bine explicate. Ele nu pot decât s?-?i piard? din rigoare ?i îngustimea înc?p??ânat? care le dau o parte de frumuse?e.

But the ultimate question is, Do the eyes receive other things than what the mind projects on them; aren't they really mirrors reflecting the mind's emissions? Perhaps we live in a world invented by ourselves.

L'art ne vient pas coucher dans les lits qu'on a faits pour lui ; il se sauve aussitôt qu'on prononce son nom »

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

I think the Moslems have gone beyond the ethic and traditions of the Koran. But in spite of that, the Koran is still a great book, one that's read by Moslems and non-Moslems alike.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.