Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation Quotes

“Metaphor is the dreamwork of language
and, like all dreamwork,
its interpretation reflects as much on the interpreter as on the originator.
The interpretation of dreams requires collaboration
between a dreamer and a waker,
even if they be the same person;
and the act of interpretation
is itself a work of the imagination.
So too understanding a metaphor is
as much a creative endeavour
as making a metaphor,
and as little guided by rules.”
― Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation