The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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This joy you feel is life.
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One must dare to be happy.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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