Quote: A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it. [Italo Calvino]
Quote: Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. [Italo Calvino]