WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Italy

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  • “Italy, my Italy!” – Robert Browning (1848)
  • “To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1787)
  • “All Italy is here, its history, its grime – who doesn’t grasp your history from your clay.” – Eugenio Montale (1925)
  • “Venice, the most beautiful of all cities, is built on piles in the sea.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
  • “Tuscany is Italy’s garden.” – Henry James (1887)
  • “Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” – George Eliot (1863)
  • “Heaven was supported by pillars of Italian marble.” – Edith Wharton (1917)
  • “Naples is paradise. Everyone lives in a state of intoxicated self-forgetfulness, myself included.” – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1787)
  • “Venice, the moon of cities, a softer light than that which goes to give gentleness to the eyes.” – Lord Byron (1817)
  • “I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life.” – Johnny Depp
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