Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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One must dare to be happy.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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