Quotes About Interpretation

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

I've spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings

My life is a never-ending conversation of the things that people do not say.

Inés y la alegría es una obra de ficción inserta en la crónica de un acontecimiento histórico real. Para afrontar su escritura, un formato nuevo para mí, he mantenido ciertas lealtades y me he tomado ciertas libertades.

Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Unfortunately, it's hard to make rules constraining lawyers, because many lawyers earn their living by obeying the letter of the law while evading its intent.

Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

That was the exhilaration of creating one's own compositions, that one's personal melodies could be reborn in the voices and spirits of others.

It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.

Le propre des grands livres est que chaque lecteur en est l'auteur.

Para mí, un loco es un ser cuyo comportamiento resulta inexplicable. El mío, en cambio, puedo explicarlo

Credo che non abbiamo la stessa concezione della parola "sentimento". Per me, voler fracassare la testa a qualcuno è un sentimento. Per lei, piangere sulla rubrica "La posta del cuore" di una rivista femminile è un sentimento.

Le son est souvent plus important que le sens.

Hay bellezas que saltan a la vista y otras que están escritas en jeroglíficos.

On lit pour découvrir une vision du monde.

Il y a tant de gens qui poussent la sophistication jusqu'à lire sans lire. Comme des hommes grenouilles, ils traversent les livres sans prendre une goutte d'eau.

Qu'est-ce que le texte, sinon un gigantesque cartilage verbal?

El examen del edificante lenguaje ajeno me llevó a la siguiente conclusión: hablar era un acto tan creativo como destructivo. Era mejor andarse con mucho cuidado con aquel invento.

Ce que l'on a vécu laisse dans la poitrine une musique : c'est elle qu'on s'efforce d'entendre à travers le récit. Il s'agit d'écrire ce son avec les moyens du langage. Cela suppose des coupes et des approximations. On élague pour mettre à nu le trouble qui nous a gagnés.