Calvino

Famous quotes containing the word calvino:

“We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”
—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)