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Frances Mayes quotes: The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

Frances Mayes quotes: What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

Frances Mayes quotes: In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

Frances Mayes quotes: [As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect ...

[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect ...

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

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

Frances Mayes quotes: If I lived here, ... I have a feeling this place would take me.

If I lived here, ... I have a feeling this place would take me.

Frances Mayes quotes: Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

Frances Mayes quotes: There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.

There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.

Frances Mayes quotes: I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Frances Mayes quotes: The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking ... Is Where It's Taking Her!

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking ... Is Where It's Taking Her!

Frances Mayes quotes: Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.

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

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

Frances Mayes quotes: There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Frances Mayes quotes: But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My

But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My

Frances Mayes quotes: Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.

Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.

Frances Mayes quotes: Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Frances Mayes quotes: It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.

Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.

Frances Mayes quotes: Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

Frances Mayes quotes: Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.

Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

Frances Mayes quotes: What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Frances Mayes quotes: I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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?

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?

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

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

Frances Mayes quotes: [As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them ...

[As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them ...

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

Frances Mayes quotes: In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor.

In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor.

Frances Mayes quotes: Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.

Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.

Frances Mayes quotes: Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.

Frances Mayes quotes: We were given one country and we've set up in another.

We were given one country and we've set up in another.

Frances Mayes quotes: I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

Frances Mayes quotes: Outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns ...

Outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns ...

Frances Mayes quotes: Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

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

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

Frances Mayes quotes: Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.

Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.

Frances Mayes quotes: Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

Frances Mayes quotes: Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes ...

Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes ...

Frances Mayes quotes: As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Frances Mayes quotes: And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

Frances Mayes quotes: My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.

My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.

Frances Mayes quotes: Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

Frances Mayes quotes: We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.

We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.

Frances Mayes quotes: The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

Frances Mayes quotes: Memory is, of course, a trickster.

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

Frances Mayes quotes: Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

Frances Mayes quotes: Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew.

Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew.

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

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

Frances Mayes quotes: The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

Frances Mayes quotes: After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

Frances Mayes quotes: Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Frances Mayes quotes: 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.

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.

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

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