It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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