“The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.” Quote by 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.” MatterInstinctSmell Author:Frances Mayes
“Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.” YearsMayI CanTwoSometimesHardLastsTreeFineSummerHundredGreenFilledValleysBowlsFogCropsFigsPearsFilled UpTwo Trees Author:Frances Mayes
“Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.” WayLosesEnthusiasmYour Children Author:Frances Mayes
“I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.” SpeechMetaphorSouthernQuirksHyperboleVividness Author:Frances Mayes
“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.” LanguageResponsibilityTravelThrilling Author:Frances Mayes
“We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.” WritingStoriesPrisonerLockedLocked Up Book:The retrieval system: poems Source: The retrieval system: poems
“The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.” WellsWarHouseParticularPeers Author:William Gilbert
“Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.” MenHelpingDiesMinesBirdFishesSwimOne Man Author:Oscar Hammerstein II