112 Quotes by Frances Mayes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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