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.

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

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of....

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

Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the....

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

First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face,....

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the....