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

Frances Mayes

Stichwörter: writing



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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

Stichwörter: frances-mayes



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[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


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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

Frances Mayes


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