Quotes by Calvino, Italo

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tr >>

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of hum >>

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

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness. >>

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. >>

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one ha >>

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.

Calvino, Italo