Claudio Magris Quotes

• La historia demuestra que no sólo es insensato y cruel, sino también difícil determinar quién es extranjero.

  Claudio Magris

  Migration, States, Danube

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

  Claudio Magris

  Journey, Flight, Standstill

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

  Claudio Magris

  Art, Should Have, Creating

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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

  Claudio Magris

  Voice, Secret, Speak

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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