Quotes by Calvino, Italo

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

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the co >>

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

Quotations about Myth

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize m >>

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths o >>

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region th >>

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.

Calvino, Italo