Quote by Claudio Magris

“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the…

— Claudio Magris

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller…

— Claudio Magris

“The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation, measured geometric…

— Claudio Magris

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous…

— Claudio Magris

“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end of a…

— Claudio Magris

“A călători nu pentru a ajunge, ci pentru a călători, pentru a ajunge cât mai târziu posibil, pentru a nu ajunge, dacă se poate,…

— Claudio Magris

“He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it…

— Claudio Magris

“Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the…

— Claudio Magris

“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.”

— Claudio Magris

“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the…

— Claudio Magris

“[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

— Claudio Magris