Frances Mayes Quotes

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

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.

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

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