Quotes about Interpretation
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
— Virginia Woolf
You have first to experience what you want to express.
— Vincent Van Gogh
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
— Khalil Gibran
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard of Bingen
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
— Carl Jung
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison
Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.
— Origen
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
— Oscar Wilde