Claudio Magris Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

Carl Yastrzemski

#3. half the feeling of home is usually a person.

Donald Miller

#4. And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

James Russell Lowell

#5. One tiny stain on a woman's reputation was as bad as a lifetime of debauchery.

Elizabeth Charles

#6. History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

#7. Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

Tom Morello

#8. The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Claudio Magris

#9. The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

Claudio Magris

#10. Suleika knows that she is only a passing moment, the crest of a wave or the hem of a cloud, but she is soberly content to be, do an instant, the embodiment of that flow.

Claudio Magris

#11. The things you learn through your sadness, believe me, these are one of the best kind of lessons.

Happiness can never teach you any of that.

Khadija Rupa

#12. If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man.

Claudio Magris

#13. Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

Claudio Magris

#14. Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous love
more rooted, more absolute
which we devote to our children, and which it is so hard to talk about.

Claudio Magris

#15. He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it might flow between ordered banks to the sea, there to vanish.

Claudio Magris

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

Claudio Magris

#17. Great things come from people who are not afraid to risk making others around them feel uncomfortable with their futuristic vision.

Brian Michael Good

#18. [E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Claudio Magris

#19. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity

Harold Bloom

#21. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Carlin

#22. I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

Carey Mulligan

#23. Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.

Claudio Magris

#24. I felt like a real girl.

Sharon M. Draper