The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary…

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the…

— Marilyn Hacker

“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding…

— Ashim Shanker

'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.

— James Gray

The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

— Ali Larijani

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

— Saul Bellow

“A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Indeed, some of the problems commonly engaging the attention of philosophical thought appear to be deprived, not only of all importance, but of any…

— René Guénon

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the…

— James Arthur

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

— Scott Turow

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they…

— Edward Young

Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the…

— Rosalie Maggio

“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my foreverland of…

— André Aciman

It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence…

— Manu Joseph

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion