Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. — Quoted

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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”

Gertrude Stein · Poetry

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Gertrude Stein

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Teacher

Gertrude Stein

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Politics

Gertrude Stein

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Funny

Gertrude Stein

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Art