Italo Calvino
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
—Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine
Posted on June 25, 2003 at 8:36 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
—Italo Calvino, Cybernetics and Ghosts
Posted on August 8, 2003 at 5:08 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Italo Calvino, Grand Bazaar
Posted on April 22, 2003 at 8:18 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the
region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no
words to enable us to get there. . . . Myth is nourished by
silence as well as by words.
—Italo Calvino
Posted on February 1, 2002 at 4:40 PM
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