Italo Calvino Quotes

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. - Italo Calvino quote.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
— Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. - Italo Calvino quote.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
— Italo Calvino L’Expresso

classics

Literature ... the Promised Land in which language becomes what it really ought to be. - Italo Calvino quote.
Literature ... the Promised Land in which language becomes what it really ought to be.
— Italo Calvino Six Memos for the Next Millennium

literature language