550 Quotes by Italo Calvino

,There is never a moonlight night but wicked ideas in evil souls writhe like serpents in nests, and charitable ones sprout lilies of renunciation and dedication.

But our mother, the most distant from him, perhaps, seemed the only one who could accept him as he was, maybe because she didn't try to find an explanation.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

E combattendo, troveranno che le parole non hanno più significato.

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will still be known, but none of their works will survive, as was the case with Socrates; or perhaps, all the surviving books will be attributed to a single, mysterious author, like Homer.

Le fiabe sono vere/Folktales are are real

One sees one’s past more and more clearly as time goes by.

I read, therefore it writes