Calvino

Famous quotes containing the word calvino:

“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“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 (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)