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.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.