Venice Quotes - Page 4

• I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Art, Air, Romance

  "Traveling with the Stars: Elizabeth Berkley". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

  Frances Mayes

  Magic, World, Stills

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Eye, Dragons, White

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

  Amber Tamblyn

  Beach, Long, Littles

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• Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Artist, Yield

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• My beautiful, my own
  My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
  Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
  Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
  And cool them into calmness!

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Sea Breeze, Wind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Cities, Joy, Fantasy

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• I shall be an Attila to Venice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History

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• [On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Cities, Water, Gondolas

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• Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Prague, Steps, Vertical

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• A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

  Lisa Bonet

  Girl, Community, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Mind, Dutch

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

  Italian, Festivals, Comedy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

  Hilda Doolittle

  Cities, Gold, Towers

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.556, New Directions Publishing

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• I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

  Arthur Symons

  Dream, Impossible, Found

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• this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

  Mary McCarthy

  Growing Up, Lying, Sleep

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.

  Veronica Franco

  Blessed, Men, Cities

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• Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, Cities, Water

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

  Cornelia Funke

  Running, Hair, Blonde

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• Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Littles

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• Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

  Mary McCarthy

  Cities, Water, Floating

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Bridges, Next, Trouble

  Daphne Du Maurier (Dame), Daphne Du Maurier (1971). “Don't look now”

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Squares, Blue

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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