Italo Calvino Quotes
Italo Calvino Quotes
- Wikiquote: Italo Calvino
- "I set my hand to the art of writing early on. Publishing was easy for me, and I at once found favor and understanding. But it was a long time before I realized and convinced myself that this was anything but mere chance."
- "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."
- "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."
- Thinkexist.com: Italo Calvino Quotes
- “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness”
- “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”
- "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.”
- BrainyQuote: Italo Calvino Quotes
- "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
- "In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
- "It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
- "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."
- WorldofQuotes.com: Italo Calvino Quotes
- "Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives."
- "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."
