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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Italo Calvino
Born: October 15, 1923
Died: September 19, 1985 (aged 61)
Bio: Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.
Known for:
- Invisible Cities (1972)
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (1979)
- The Baron in the Trees (1957)
- Cosmicomics (1965)
- The Nonexistent Knight (1959)
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