It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully and interpreted so enthusiastically in England.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors interpreting them as facts then you are in trouble.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Yes but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life it could be interpreted as antigay.

Because in fact women feminists do read my poetry and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.