More from Gertrude Stein

  1. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
  2. Poetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely is. It is …
  3. When this you see remember me.
  4. When I said. 'A rose is a rose is a rose.' And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do? I caressed completely care…
  5. Pigeons on the grass alas. Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons large pigeons on…
  6. A master-piece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
  7. Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.
  8. If you do not remember while you are writing, it may seem confused to others but actually it is clear and eventually that clarity will be c…

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