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On the breathless silence of the cool air came the small sounds of the village which later I could identify exactly, attaching to each the name of a friend: Michaelis’s bees burring among the blossoms, Andreas’s pigeons murmuring. . . .

— Lawrence Durrell

Tsarouchis

All the way across Italy you find yourself moving through a landscape severely domesticated — each valley laid out after the architect’s pattern, brilliantly lighted, human.

— Lawrence Durrell

Vittorio Giardino

"Mrs. Zambaco" (1870)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

C.P. Cavafy’s cousin Maria Zambaco (1843–1914), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti, artist and model.

It is clear that Chuang Tzu is a very dangerous writer, and the publication of his book in English is obviously premature.

He would be disturbing at dinner-parties, and impossible at afternoon teas, and his whole life was a protest against platform speaking.

— Oscar Wilde

Space, light and solitude will have to be rediscovered again here, in all their ramifications.

— Lawrence Durrell

Yannis Tsarouchis

Every curve here is a caress, nakedness to the delighted eyes, an endearment. Every prospect is contained in a frame of cypress and olives and brilliant roofs.

— Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell (1945)

Sargent, Olive Trees, Corfu (1909)

On the breathless silence of the cool air came the small sounds of the village which later I could identify exactly, attaching to each the name of a friend: Michaelis’s bees burring among the blossoms, Andreas’s pigeons murmuring....

— Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons

Tsarouchis

There are forms of greatness, you know, which when not applied in art or religion make havoc of ordinary life.

— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (Augustus John)

Greece is a good place to look at the moon, isn't it?

You can read by moonlight
You can read on the terrace

You can see a face
as you saw it when you were young

There was good light then. . . .

— Leonard Cohen, "Days of Kindness"

(Corfu Moon: Bill Metallinos)

The only cross I have to bear is that everywhere I go I am asked to sign one of my brother's books.

As usual, I oblige, signing the book 'Marcel Proust', with the appropriate flourish.

— Lawrence Durrell, saluting brother Gerald

(Loomis Dean)