Logo
Quote by Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the regio

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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Romantic
Author
Italo Calvino
Read Quote

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

Category:
Travel
Author
Italo Calvino
Read Quote

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Italo Calvino
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
category

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
Myths, Mythology

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Random Quotes

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. – Dave Barry

Category:
Business

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq. – Bob Graham

Category:
Intelligence

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Fate & Destiny

Its hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasnt yet been duplicated by technology. – Paul Graham

Category:
Technology