More Quotes by Italo Calvino
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
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.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
