Here in a single hour, everything is changed.

It is as if a wall in my mind had been knocked down at a stroke.

Before me lies an immense new world, and it makes the old one, the poor little narrow, familiar one I have always known, seem pitiful." "But you did n't come to Rome to keep your eyes fastened on that narrow little world.

Forget it, turn your back on it, and enjoy all this." "I want to enjoy it; but as I sat here just now, looking up at that golden mist in the dome, I seemed to see in it the vague shapes of certain people and things at home.

To enjoy, as you say, as these things demand of one to enjoy them, is to break with one's past.