Quotes About Interpretation

Or again, exegesis of The Waste Land often reads remarkably like the psychoanalytic interpretation of a dream, yet we know that Eliot's methods were prepared for him not by Freud but by other poets.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Poets sing our human music for us.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.