{"text":"Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["beautiful","beautiful-writing","beauty","buildings","italian","italy","new-york","new-york-city","personification","rome","tuscany","woman"],"id":3674,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"}