The Discovery of Poetry Quotes

“No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire to make something with words, you probably know that.”
― Frances Mayes, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

“Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.”
― Frances Mayes, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

“we respond immediately to language that seems to be experience, rather than language that seems to describe experience from a distance”
― Frances Mayes, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

“Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.”
― Frances Mayes, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems