Quotes by : Frances Mayes

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

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

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

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

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....

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,....

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