Create Yours

Top 10 Claudio Magris Quotes (2025 Update)

Claudio Magris Quote: “Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

1. “Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

— Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Claudio Magris Quote: “History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”

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

— Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Claudio Magris Quote: “Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.”

5. “Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.”

— Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Claudio Magris Quote: “To use the term ‘clerk’ as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes, ranting on their war-chariots, but is more like Ulysses, who knows that he is no one. He manifests himself in this revelation of impersonality that conceals him in the prolixity of things, as travelling erases the traveller in the confused murmur of the street.”

7. “To use the term ‘clerk’ as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes, ranting on their war-chariots, but is more like Ulysses, who knows that he is no one. He manifests himself in this revelation of impersonality that conceals him in the prolixity of things, as travelling erases the traveller in the confused murmur of the street.”

— Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Claudio Magris Quote: “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.”

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

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

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

— Claudio Magris

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 10 Claudio Magris Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.