More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
