Quotes on Fugitive

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.