Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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