Italo Calvino Quote

I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Marco Polo to Kublai Khan

Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9

I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.