“ Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent. ”
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
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
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.
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
