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I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Language Poetry

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Writing

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Books Writing

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Beauty Inspiration

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Beauty In Nature Inspiration Nature

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Choice Relationship

Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Frances Mayes Memory

And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, go.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Missed Opportunities Travel

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Travel Travel Writing

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Travel Travel Writing

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Food

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Choice Identity

At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Garden Home Italy Sense Of Place

He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Italy Love Love At First Sight Love Quotes Love Story Lovequotes Lover Tuscany

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Childhood Memories Childhood Trauma Father Forgiveness Quotes Frances Mayes Memoir Southern Southerners

First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her, I'm jumping on the canopied bed while she cries, she's pulling out drawers looking for a handkerchief, Now, he's all right, the man say, they think, patting her shoulder, I'm jumping higher, I'm not allowed, they think he saved old man Mayes, the bed slats dislodge and the mattress collapses. My mother lunges for me.Many traveled to Reidsville for the event, but my family did not witness Willis Barnes's electrocution, From kindergarten through high school, Donette, the murderer's daughter, was in my class. We played together at recess. Sometimes she'd spit on me.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Childhood Memories Childhood Trauma Father Frances Mayes Memoir Mother Shooting Southern Southerners

Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Community

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

~ Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Art Food History
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