Citations

CITATIONS

VIRGINIA WOLF, DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE, MARY SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"... Here am I sitting, by an open window, by a balcony, (...) an a hot day which indeed I might describe, but how describe hills, the tall pink yellow white houses, and the in fact, non fiction, purple brown sea, not rolling in waves, as I made my sea..."
Virginia Woolf, "To Ethel Smyth"

“Dear Garnett, I am so happy with the place we have at last discovered, I must write smack off to tell you. It is perfect. There is a little tiny bay half shut in by rocks, and smothered by olive woods that slope down swiftly. Then there is one pink, flat, fisherman’s house. Then there is the villino of Ettore Gambrosier, a four-roomed pink cottage among vine gardens, just over the water and under the olive woods. There, D. V. (Deo Volente), is my next home. It is exquisite. One gets by rail from Genoa or from Parma to Spezia, by steamer across the gulf of Lerici, and by rowing boat round the headlands to Fia-scherino, where is the villino which is to be mine. (...) You run out of the gate into the sea, which washes among the rocks at the mouth of the bay...”
David Herbert Lawrence, “To Ed. Garnett”

“...As to me, like Anacreon’s swillow, I have left my Nile, and have taken up my summer quarters here...”
Mary Shelley, “Note on poems of 1822 - Note alle poesie del 1822”

“...Sunshine and calm invased sea and sky, and the rich tints of italian heaven bathed the scene in bright and ever-varing tints..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley