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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent. — 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. — 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? — 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 — Frances Mayes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Memory is, of course, a trickster. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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? — Frances Mayes

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

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

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

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