Maria Capponi Quotes

“We did not talk, but we let our eyes say all that a stern and voluptuous deity had given them power to express. Doris’s curls—normally frivolous damsels who mocked even at victorious gladiators—now hung helplessly down over her forehead in subjection to her mouth, whose languid defiance dominated her whole face.”
― René Schickele, Maria Capponi: Roman