Quotes by Calvino, Italo

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

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. >>

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floa >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble. >>

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first >>

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. >>

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo