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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

Other quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. – Gertrude Stein

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funny
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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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Women
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Gertrude Stein
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein

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War
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Gertrude Stein
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett

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Poetry

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

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Poetry

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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Poetry

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. – Muriel Rukeyser

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Poetry

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. – Michael Reagan

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