It is a highly subjective, romantic, impressionistic picture less of a city than of an experience. It is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth. It possesses the particular sense of well-being that comes, if I may be immodest, when author and subject are perfectly matched: on the one side, in this case, the loveliest city in the world, only asking to be admired; on the other a writer in the full powers of young maturity, strong in physique, eager in passion, with scarely a care or a worry in the world.

Jan Morris, Venice (rhagair, argraffiad 1993)

Pobl sydd wedi'u dad-diriogaethu yw'r Cymru, a dieithrwch yw eu tynged i gyd.

Simon Brooks, 'Cymry newydd a'u llên', Taliesin 156, Gaeaf 2015