Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
IQuote by Italo Calvino about melancholia, sadness
Quotes by Italo Calvino
5 quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino - italian journalist and writer
Was born on 15 oct 1923.
Died on 19 sep 1985, at 61 years old.
Died on 19 sep 1985, at 61 years old.
Origin country: Italy
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
IQuote by Italo Calvino about flattering, voice
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
IQuote by Italo Calvino about literature
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
IQuote by Italo Calvino about opinion, ideal
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.
IQuote by Italo Calvino about opinion, language, mother, change, world
