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
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  1. 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.
  2. A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
  3. 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.
  4. Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
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