You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.