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Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. By Frances Mayes
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. By Frances Mayes
We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat. By Frances Mayes
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me. By Frances Mayes
Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one. By Frances Mayes
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that. By Frances Mayes
In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor. By Frances Mayes
The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking ... Is Where It's Taking Her! By Frances Mayes
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. By Frances Mayes
It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive? By Frances Mayes
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. By Frances Mayes
Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings. By Frances Mayes
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage. By Frances Mayes
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream. By Frances Mayes
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words? By Frances Mayes
Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct. By Frances Mayes
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. By Frances Mayes
My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. By Frances Mayes
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. By Frances Mayes
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. By Frances Mayes
[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect ... By Frances Mayes
[As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them ... By Frances Mayes
And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, go. By Frances Mayes
What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course. By Frances Mayes
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk. By Frances Mayes
In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things. By Frances Mayes
If I lived here, ... I have a feeling this place would take me. By Frances Mayes
There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches. By Frances Mayes
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. By Frances Mayes
Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right. By Frances Mayes
Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips. 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. By Frances Mayes
But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My By Frances Mayes
One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I admire. By Frances Mayes
Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle. By Frances Mayes
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. By Frances Mayes
I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. By Frances Mayes
Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places. By Frances Mayes
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. By Frances Mayes
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? By Frances Mayes
Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent. By Frances Mayes
Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore. By Frances Mayes
We were given one country and we've set up in another. By Frances Mayes
Outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns ... By Frances Mayes
Italy's siren call lures us more and more. By Frances Mayes
Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes ... By Frances Mayes
And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties. By Frances Mayes
What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real. By Frances Mayes
Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it. By Frances Mayes
The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers. By Frances Mayes
Memory is, of course, a trickster. By Frances Mayes
Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew. By Frances Mayes
The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths. By Frances Mayes
After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool. By Frances Mayes
Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. By Frances Mayes
I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room. By Frances Mayes
