Frances Mayes said this quote

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.

~ Frances Mayes

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

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

~ Frances Mayes