“There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.”

“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

“There is nothing more potentially hostile than the indigenous ego interpreting the laws of his conqueror upon his own people”

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”