If you didn't get the terrible play on words from the title, just imagine me letting out a big, long sigh right now. Christine and I have been overwhelmed all day with this fantastic idea we have, and I've been doing research for the larger part of the day (when I wasn't chasing Jameson around). Because of all this reading and computer work, I realllllly don't feel like blogging tonight. Since I have this personal commitment to blog every day (obviously when I have a working internet), I'm just going to share with you some of my favorite quotes about Venice and Italy. Enjoy!
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” -Truman Capote
“If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is -- Venice is better.” -Fran Lebowitz
“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” -Arthur Symons
"It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone." --Erica Jong
"What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago." --Erica Jong
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." --Giuseppe Verdi
"For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery. back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness." --D.H. Lawrence
"Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life." --Anna Akhmatova
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." --Orson Welles
"Open my heart and you will see 'Graved inside of it, Italy.'" --Robert Browning
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." --Giuseppe Verdi
"For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery. back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness." --D.H. Lawrence
"Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life." --Anna Akhmatova
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." --Orson Welles
"Open my heart and you will see 'Graved inside of it, Italy.'" --Robert Browning
Today my favorite thing about Italy is: Other peoples' equally shared passion for Venice.
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