"It is strange, how quickly people want to……" — Peter Bichsel
"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."
More Exile Quotes
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;… — Diane Ackerman
- Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is… — James A. Baldwin
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams. — Aeschylus
- It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one… — Joseph Brodsky
- Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,… — Willa Cather
- I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am… — Isabel Allende
- It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not… — Stephen Vincent Benet
- To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to… — Albert Camus
- The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is… — Primo Levi