The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Nothing exists except through language.