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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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – 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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Death
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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Its always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. Its hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. – Tom Hanks

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?

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Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold its own if it doesnt, the thing collapses. – Arnold Newman

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