Interpretation Quotes

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true" "Every thing possible to be believed is an image of the truth" "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way" "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems" "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them." "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is" "Translation is the art of failure" "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." "What we see is not what we see but what we are."