Calvino Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words calvino and/or wrote:

    “The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
    —Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)