Quote by Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. - Gertrud

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. – Gertrude Stein

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. – Robert Morgan

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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