Quotes by : Frances Mayes

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

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

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

Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores,....

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

He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing....

At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace....

And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk,....

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

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets....