Calvino

Famous quotes containing the word calvino:

“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)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one’s mother’s womb.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)