Gertrude Stein Quotes About Poetry

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  • 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 caressed and addressed a noun.

    Nouns  
    Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.22, Vintage
  • Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.

    Nouns  
    Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
  • Any time is the time to make a poem.

    Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.162, Vintage
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