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.
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.