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

- Claudio Magris

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

- 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 everyone.

- 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 is less li…

- Claudio Magris