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

Gertrude Stein

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself

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