What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.