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Italian poet, playwright, novelist, and journalist, known for his passionate style and rebellious spirit. His works covered a wide range of themes, including love, war, nature, and religion.

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Famous Gabriele d'Annunzio Quotes

“But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans.”

Italy Venice D Annunzio

Book:The Flame

Source: The Flame

“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...”

Sex Italy Decadence Decadent D 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.”

Italy Decadence Decadent

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.”

Imagery Italy Venice Decadence D Annunzio

Book:The Flame

Source: The Flame

“They remained silent, while the bronze tolling passed over their heads so powerfully that they seemed to hear it in the very roots of their hair like a quiver of their flesh.”

Passionate Italy Decadent

Book:The Flame

Source: The Flame

“He followed the glances of some of them like a ray of love directed at a woman seated somewhere, engrossed in her own thoughts, made languorous by secret delights and softened in some impure way, with a snow-white face in which her mouth opened like a hive damp with honey.”

Passionate Italy Decadent

Book:The flame = (il fuoco) - Scholar's Choice Edition

Source: The flame = (il fuoco) - Scholar's Choice Edition

“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.”

Italy Decadence Decadent D 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...”

Imagery Italy Venice Decadence Decadent

Book:The Flame

Source: The Flame

About the Author

Born: March 12, 1863
Died: March 1, 1938
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 31

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