One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.