Quotes About Interpretation

Words are hoops Through which to leap upon meanings, Which are horses' backs, Bare, moving.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music, painting, drawing, cinema...

Language has shaped our expectations so extensively that real reality has become the most detached and incomprehensible one of all.

Él obraba cuando todos dormían, lo que en una imperceptible torsión gramatical podía significar que su obra era el sueño.

No estaba tan seguro de que sueño y pesadilla fueran especies distintas. Quizás lo que era sueño para uno era pesadilla para otro; lo que de cualquier modo habría sido difícil de comprobar, porque si había algo intransferible de persona a persona, era lo onírico.

After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the less literature there is in it.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I guess no one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

even a question can be a lie if asked in the right way.

Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly.

It is painful—there is no denying it—to interpret radiant things from the shadow-side, and thus in a measure reduce them to their origins in dreary filth. But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shadow-side has a destructive effect.

My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else to express the words from the depths.

The image of the world is half the world.

A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal. A dream never says: "You ought", or: "This is the truth." It presents an image in much the same way as nature allows a plant to grow, and we must draw our own conclusions. If a person has a nightmare, it means either that he is too much given to fear, or else that he is too exempt from it;