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Italo Calvino Quotes

Italo Calvino quotes

Italian Journalist, Writer October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985

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although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "One should be light like a bird and not like a feather."
One should be light like a bird and not like a feather. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of..."
seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space Italo Calvino
what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Fantasy is a place where it rains."
Fantasy is a place where it rains. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the..."
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses. Italo Calvino
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written. Italo Calvino
They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one..."
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but..."
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. Italo Calvino
It's all very well for me to tell myself there are no provincial cities any more and perhaps there never were any: all places communicate instantly with all other places, a sense of isolation is felt only during the trip between one place and the other, that is, when you are in no place. I, in fact, recognize myself here without a here or an elsewhere, recognized as an outsider by the nonoutsiders at least as clearly as I recognize the nonoutsiders and envy them. Italo Calvino
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss. Italo Calvino
These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?"
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no..."
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. Italo Calvino

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