Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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