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. - Italo Calvino Quotes
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. Italo Calvino
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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. - Italo Calvino Quotes

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.

Italo Calvino

 Language
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. - Italo Calvino Quotes

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.

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 Myth
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. - Italo Calvino Quotes

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino

 Genius Italian Journalist
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. - Italo Calvino Quotes

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino

 Italian Journalist
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. - Italo Calvino Quotes

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Italo Calvino

 Italian Journalist
Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? — era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche essere formulata così: — Viaggi per ritrovare il tuo futuro? - Italo Calvino Quotes

Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? — era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche essere formulata così: — Viaggi per ritrovare il tuo futuro?

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 Future
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. - Italo Calvino Quotes

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

 Exile
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear - Italo Calvino Quotes

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear - Italo Calvino Quotes

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear

Italo Calvino

 
You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip off the transparent wrapping, start reading the first lines. A storm of honking breaks over you.... - Italo Calvino Quotes

You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip off the transparent wrapping, start reading the first lines. A storm of honking breaks over you....

Italo Calvino

 Books And Reading
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