Italo Calvino

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #writing #art

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#death #home #the-dead #death

Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#life

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#beer #death #death

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#nature #passion-unleashed #nature

... we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#time #love

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#imagination

Os futuros não realizados são apenas ramos do passado: ramos secos. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inspirational

...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#warfare #change

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences