History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to…

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we…

— Umberto Eco

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

— Lilian Whiting

“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

— W. H. Auden

“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.”

— Petra Hermans

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

— Ben Hecht

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

— Jean Cocteau

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the…

— William Baziotes

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

— William Wordsworth

“Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow…And a sweet Planet it is!”

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

— Denis Leary

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liquers at one go.”

— Truman Capote

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really…

— Anne Alexander

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski

… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the legendary Phoenix…

— Sara Davidson

“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”

— Oscar Wilde