Quotes About Experience

Toda mi vida modifica el libro que estoy leyendo.

The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene.

Time is living me.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

Después reflexioné que todas las cosas le suceden a uno precisamente, precisamente ahora. Siglos de siglos y sólo en el presente ocurren los hechos; innumerables hombres en el aire, en la tierra y el mar, y todo lo que realmente pasa me pasa a mí...

Uno no es lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que ha leído.

Mindig azt mondtam a tanítványaimnak, hogy ne csináljanak bibliográfiát, ne olvassanak kritikákat, olvassák magukat a m?veket; lehet, hogy keveset fognak belÅ'lük érteni, de élvezni fogják az olvasást, és mindig hallani fogják valakinek a hangját.

If I could live again - I will travel light, If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the beginning of spring till the end of autumn, I'll ride more carts, I'll watch more sunrises...

I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation the impression, is repeated. But, as I say, it may be mere loyalty,a mere trick of memory a mere confusion we once felt,thus it may be said that poetry is a new experience every time,every time I read a poem the experience happns to occur and that is poetry

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Ya cumplidos los cuarenta años, todo cambio es un símbolo detectable del pasaje del tiempo.

Existe un río cuyas aguas dan la inmortalidad; en alguna región habrá otro río cuyas aguas la borren. El número no es infinito; un viajero inmortal que recorra el mundo acabará, algún día, por haber bebido de todos.

Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.

Además, confesar un hecho es dejar de ser el actor para ser el testigo, para ser alguien que lo mira y lo narra y que ya no lo ejecutó.

Andere mögen sich der Bücher rühmen, die sie geschrieben haben, mein Ruhm sind die Bücher, die ich gelesen habe.

Little has happened to me in my lifetime, but I have read much.

There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Czym sÄ… w koÅ"cu sÅ'owa? SÅ'owa to symbole naszych wspólnych wspomnieÅ". Kiedy u?ywam danego sÅ'owa, spodziewam siÄ™, ?e czytelnicy posiadajÄ… pewne doÅ›wiadczenia, zwiÄ…zane z jego znaczeniem.

The years pass and I've told this story so many times I no longer know whether I remember it as it was or whether it's only my words I'm remembering.