What Romantic terminology called genius... by Italo Calvino

Writer Nothing Right Novelist Literature

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

- Italo Calvino

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

Cities

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

Living

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

- Italo Calvino

Voice

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

- Italo Calvino

Cities End Will

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

- Italo Calvino

Saying

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

- Italo Calvino

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Italo Calvino

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