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Top 280 Italo Calvino Quotes (2024 Update)

Italo Calvino Quote: “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “I felt in harmony with the disharmony of others, myself, and the world.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “While the hemlock was being prepared, Socrates was learning a melody on the flute. “What use will that be to you?”, he was asked. “At least I will learn this melody before I die.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “There is no language without deceit.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “When I’m writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I’ve really done and to compare my intentions with the result.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “L’umano arriva dove arriva l’amore, non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “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 Quote: “They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “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 Quote: “You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Then Marco Polo spoke: “Your chessboard, sire, is inlaid with two woods: ebony and maple. The square on which your enlightened gaze is fixed was cut from the ring of a trunk that grew in a year of drought: you see how its fibers are arranged? Here a barely hinted knot can be made out: a bud tried to burgeon on a premature spring day, but the night’s frost forced it to desist.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “A map of Esmeralda should include, marked in different colored inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden. It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “You’ll understand when you’ve forgotten what you understood before.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don’t cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign – a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don’t want to hear the word mentioned.”
Italo Calvino Quote: “If on a winter’s night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end?-he asks, anxious to hear the story.”
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