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Quotation from Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
“A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers.”
Why Read the Classics?, Definition 6, trans. Martin McLaughlin (1999)
The sixth of Calvino's fourteen definitions, from which he says the fourth follows as a corollary.
Citation: "A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers." — Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?, Definition 6, trans. Martin McLaughlin (1999). (id calvino-why-read-the-classics-q1)
