Claudio Magris Professions : Scholar Born : April 10, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Claudio Magris History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. Claudio Magris danube migration states 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 speak secret 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 creating should-have art Every journey is played out between standstill and flight. Claudio Magris standstill flight journey Similar Authors Abu Rayhan al-Biruni scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali scholar Diana L. Eck scholar David W. Johnson scholar Darrell Bock scholar Ibn Majah scholar All Authors