Isadora and D'Annunzio

"Oh, Isadora, it is only possible to be alone with you in Nature. All other women destroy the landscape, you alone become part of it." (Could any woman resist such homage?) "You are part of the trees, the sky, you are the dominating goddess of Nature." That was the genius of D'Annunzio. He made each woman feel she was a goddess in a different domain. Lying here on my bed at the Negresco, I try to analyse this thing that they call memory. I feel the heat of the sun of the Midi. I hear the voices of children playing in a neighbouring park. I feel the warmth of my own body." (from "My Life" by Isadora Duncan) Image by Edward Steichen, Portrait of Isadora Duncan