You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

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.

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

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.