Quotes by Calvino, Italo

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge >>

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, l >>

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. >>

Quotations about Literature

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biolog >>

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually >>

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all >>

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.

Calvino, Italo