“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the… — Claudio Magris War Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Architecture Copy Share Image
“The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation,… — Claudio Magris Art of war Copy Share Image
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should… — Claudio Magris Clandestine Copy Share Image
“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and… — Claudio Magris Love Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris First world war Copy Share Image
“A călători nu pentru a ajunge, ci pentru a călători, pentru a ajunge cât mai târziu posibil, pentru a nu ajunge, dacă… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so… — Claudio Magris Poetry Copy Share Image
“Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment… — Claudio Magris Faith Copy Share Image
“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.” — Claudio Magris Adventure Copy Share Image
“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming… — Claudio Magris Fitness Copy Share Image
“Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.” — Claudio Magris Journey Copy Share Image
“The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed… — Claudio Magris Courage Copy Share Image
“The Danube is not blue, as Karl Isidore Beck calls it in the lines which suggested to Strauss the fetching, mendacious title… — Claudio Magris Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“To use the term 'clerk' as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as… — Claudio Magris Personality Copy Share Image
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris Difficult Copy Share Image
