Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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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