Floating Point Interpretive

Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or interpretive:

    “Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
    Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
    As they came floating on the Christal Flood,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
    To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)