More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
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.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
