Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Romance is everything.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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