Quotes of Frances Mayes - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Frances Mayes

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

- 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. ”

- Frances Mayes

“ A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to recreate something in words is like being alive twice. ”

- Frances Mayes

“ You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing. ”

- Frances Mayes

“ You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing. ”

- Frances Mayes
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