The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Pater...
A source page for quotes linked to Pietros Maneos.
“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”
“Italy is not so much a country, but an epic poem continuously being written.”
“Hot peppers are to Calabria what Sangiovese is to Tuscany.”
“In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.”
“Isn't it far better to live a poetic life than to spend one's life writing Poetry?”
“Yes Ernest, it is pretty to think so.”
“Beauty, and its pursuit, is sustaining.”
“After living in Paris, does not the rest of the world seem but a hovel?”
“I knew that it was time to cease being a Romanov so as to become an Abramovich.”
“And nothing holds more glory than in dying for Love or Liberty.”