Italo Calvino Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.
It seems impossible, in a big city like Paris, but you can waste hours looking for the right place to burn up a corpse.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes.
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.
... we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.
Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.
The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.
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.
This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
There is still, in fact, in Calvino's archive a drawer full of newspaper cuttings concerning scientific discoveries. As