Italy

“Here I find the secret of Italian Poetry… Here the poets of Italy tasted the sweet of those enchanted gardens which they describe… and wonder at their bright imaginations; but they drew only from reality

--Mary Shelley

“No sooner had we arrived in Italy than the loveliness of the earth and the serenity of the sky made the greatest difference in my sensation”

--Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."

--Giuseppe Verdi

“We watch the ocean and the sky together, under the roof of blue Italian weather.”

--Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Italy and the spring and the first love all together should suffice to made the gloomiest person happy."

--Bertrand Russell

"One must love Italy if one has lived there. It is so non-moral. It leaves the soul to be free”.

--D. H. Lawrence

"Was it in short, ever well to be elsewhere when one might be in Italy?"

--Edith Wharton