Calvino

Famous quotes containing the word calvino:

“I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“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 (1923–1985)

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)