Umbria Quotes

• We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

  Ashley Jensen

  Children, Light, America

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• The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Cutting, White, Black

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 1,

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• A veces, mirando hacia Sophiatown... he tenido la sensación de estar mirando un pueblo italiano en algún lugar de Umbría. Porque, en efecto, "levantas la vista" hacia Sophiatown y, a la luz del atardecer, a través de la bruma gris azulada del humo de braseros y chimeneas, sobre un cielo azafrán, ves casitas apiñadas de tejados rojos. Y por encima de todo se ve la iglesia de Cristo Rey, con su torre visible al norte, al sur, al este y al oeste.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Reyes, Italiano, Azul

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• Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Years, Retreat

  "De la amplitud no se rasca fondo: Una entrevista con Jane Hirshfield". Entrevista con Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. 16 de marzo de 2015.

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• Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

  Terence McKenna

  Looks, Maids, Waste

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