Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth4 April 1940
CountryUnited States of America
venice magic world
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
orange body fruit
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.
landscape honey bread
The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.
flower skirts balconies
...outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns...
layers
The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
goal priorities everyday
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
italian eyebrows georgia
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
land car plot
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
discovery fields language
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.
way technique cooks
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
responsibility language thrilling
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
chinese alive poet
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
dream morning night
the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.
arbitrary way different
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.