“The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress. The vision of the laden barge, the pale island, the flowery meadow returned to her loving spirit along with the Creator's words: 'This is my body...Take and eat...” SexItalyDecadenceDecadentD Annunzio Book:The Flame Source: The Flame
“The heat of his night time fever was being brushed away entirely by the breeze as the light mists evaporated. The same process that was happening around him, was happening within him too. He was being reborn with the morning.” ItalyDecadenceDecadent Book:The Flame Source: The Flame
“It was like a Stygian plain, like a vision of Hades: a land of shadows, vapours and water. Everything was going misty and disappearing like spirits. The moon was enchanting and pulling at the plain just as she enchants and pulls at the sea, drinking all that vast earthly dampness from the horizon with her silent, insatiable throat.” ImageryItalyVeniceDecadenceD Annunzio Book:The Flame Source: The Flame
“That which at twilight had appeared to be a silvery sea-god's palace, a structure of twisted sea-shapes, was now a temple built by the cunning genies of Fire.” ItalyDecadenceDecadentD Annunzio Book:The Flame Source: The Flame
“Radian. The prisoner's name is Radiana. Who is keeping her prisoner? Time, Stelio. Time is guarding the doors with his scythe and his hour-glass, as in all those old prints...” ImageryItalyVeniceDecadenceDecadent Book:The Flame Source: The Flame
