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

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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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

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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

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

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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

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