Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly. — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
![“The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics…” quote by Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7d/italo-calvino-402_achieve_the-contradiction-trying-to-use-russian_1561012.jpg)
