Quotes About Interpretation

Miles Davis dijo que cualquier pieza que se tocara a la trompeta había sido ya interpretada por Louis Armstrong.

Eu, que mato mesmo quando descrevo a morte como natural, acidental. E mato porque quem conta sempre mata aquilo que originou o conto.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

6] Then the ambassador asked him, "Can you make it true that you yourself are insane?" The provider of arguments said, "I could, but I don't want to. Who isn't insane?" Then people asked the provider of arguments to say from the heart whether he was joking or whether he really believed that there is no truth except what people make out to be true. He replied, "That is what I believe, I swear." Afterward

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Un poet de mare viziune (Baudelaire, Rilke, de ex.) afirm? în dou? versuri mai mult decât un filozof în toat? opera sa.

To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

Nu tr?irile tale m? intereseaz?, ci felul în care le prezinÈ›i. O via?? nu este o oper?.

Everything that can be classified is perishable. Only what is susceptible to several interpretations endures.

Istoria este o explica?ie, dar nu o scuz?.

What is the point of what we say? Is there any meaning to this series of propositions which constitutes our talk? And do these propositions, taken one by one, have any object? We can talk only if we set aside this question, or if we raise it as infrequently as possible.

It is a misfortune for an author to be understood.

Each of us is entitled to claim the forebears who suit him, who explain him in his own eyes. How often have I not changed ancestors!

To exempt themselves from action, oppressed peoples entrust themselves to "fate," a negative salvation as well as a means of interpreting events: a philosophy of history for daily use, a determinist vision on an effective basis, a metaphysic of circumstance . . .

With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.

A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after the autopsy, is less than a corpse.

Since it is words that bind us to things, we cannot detach ourselves from things unless we first break with words.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

To make a single nation illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.

On few subjects has more nonsense been written than on the learning of Shakespeare.

It will not answer to explain what all the things which you describe are not. You must begin by saying what they are.

Some extreme sceptics, we know, doubt whether it is possible to deduce anything as to an author's character from his works. Yet surely people do not keep a tame steam engine to write their books; and if those books were really written by a man, he must have been a man who could write them; he must have had the thoughts which they express, have acquired the knowledge they contain, have possessed the style in which we read them.

M?t ng??i không hi?u v? tri?t lý s? ch? là m?t h?ng chiêm tinh t?i hay th?y bói h? c?p.