Quotes by : Italo Calvino

Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty....

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night....

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange....

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right....

From mirror to mirror — this is what I happen to dream of — the totality of things, the whole, the....

I think that my first impulse arises from a hypersensitivity or allergy. It seems to me that language....

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and....

…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in....