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 MayesIndecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Frances MayesLike fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.
Frances Mayes