Believe Quote by Italo Calvino

“When Marco Polo came at last to Cathay, seven hundred years ago, did he not feel--and did his heart not falter as he realized--that…

— Richard Adams

“Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." Khan:…

— Italo Calvino

“My first impression of Venice was that it might be hard to make anything happen there. Everything seemed to have already happened. Venice seemed…

— Glenn Haybittle

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman

“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt…

— Tahir Shah

“And Polo answers, "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities...”

— Italo Calvino

“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you made in…

— Tyler Kent White

“Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.”

— Denis Johnson

“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.”

— Oscar Wilde

“her true name is never spoken aloud.”

— Kris Waldherr

“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.”

— Milton Steinberg

“The city's canals outnumber those in Venice,”

— Lonely Planet