The day of Judgement, for those amalfitans that go to heaven, will be a day like any other
John Steinbeck: "A road high, high above the blue sea, that hooked and corkscrewed on the edge of nothing ... in the back seat of the car my wife and I clutched in each other's arms, weeping hysterically".
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: "Knowst thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom? It is there I would be gone, to be with you"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Sweet the memory is to me of a land beyond the sea, where the waves and mountains meet"
Salvatore Quasimodo: "This is the garden we look for after the perfect days of our childhood"
Dino Buzzati: "Greenish dramatic seabeds, caverns and cliffs, sour and sweet at the same time, good for love dizziness"
Renato Fucini: "The day of Judgement, for those amalfitans that go to heaven, will be a day like any other"
Gore Vidal: "Fifty-one years ago, just out of the army, I was looking for a place to write until at least the end of the century. I came to Ravello on a bright, cold day in March where I stood on a limestone cliff overlooking the Gulf of Salerno, Paestum opposite me, and I thought, and think, this is the most beautiful spot on Earth and so, in due course, I made it my own, and so it will remain until the next lucky visitor takes my place among the cypresses, the lemons, the vineyards of Magna Graecia where the sea-sky are so intensely blue that you cannot tell where one begins and the other leaves off."
Hanna Maria Laakso: "I decided to live on the Amalfi Coast because it inspires me: I have lived in big cities in my life and I don't want that anymore. I love the local people here, their friendliness, their smile, I feel they are warm-hearted and authentic people. The sea and the mountains give me life energy, in yoga terms, prana. When I see something as spectacular as this each day my mind feels just so good."