QUOTES

We need sacrifice in order to lose ourselves and find our identity.
Miklós Mészöly
No matter what you believe in, you'll die, but if you do not believe in anything, you are dead alive.
Imre Kertész
Where we are is so horribly far away.
Lajos Parti Nagy
It is only worth publishing ephemeral works; immortal ones can remain in manuscript.
Béla Hamvas
A poet has no private life to speak of. He uses his feelings, which then, like acids, release meanings from his own and from others’ bodies, filtering out the essential materials from which he creates his poems, volatile non-existent objects. And then from all of that, something that reminds one of life.
Szilárd Borbély
I would have liked it if it was that way. / It wasn't that way. / I asked: be that way. / So it became that way.
Dezső Tandori
I have needed many coincidences and the passing of years to understand what tragic consequences it can have if we are not able to accept the rules of Nature, and in particular the mysteriousness of human beings.
Péter Nádas
It would be superb if in the process of writing, going from one word to the next, from one sentence to the next, there was some way that, like the beam of a flashlight, we could light up our way for and thus catch in the act precisely what is becoming what it does become from being caught in the act.
Miklós Mészöly
He didn't like stories where someone set off and arrived, because beginnings are blurry and the end filled him with anxiety.
Éva Bánki
There are fifty liters of water in the body of a person who weighs a hundred kilos. We could bathe in ourselves like in a small tub on a housing estate; tightly, narrowly, just as we live, but it could be done.
Lajos Parti Nagy
The most a writer can do is to present obscurity in a clear manner.
Miklós Mészöly