City Quotes by Italo Calvino

9 City quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino’s reflections on the city unfold in nine brief excerpts. They reveal his inventive, literary lens, giving a swift sense of his poetic urban visions.

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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

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New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way…

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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of…

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“Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to…

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“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of…

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“This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a…

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“A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but…

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“In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls. "Man blessed…

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“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.”

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“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a…

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“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not…

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