He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I want a friend named Gertrude so I can walk into the supermarket with her and yell, Yo Gert, when we are… — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy,… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream… — Sheridan Morley Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence… — Janet Wallach Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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