Poetry Quote by Gertrude Stein — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”

“I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.”

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

“funny how our hearts”

“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning of the poem is provided to keep the mind busy while the poem gets on with its work -- like the bone thrown to the dog by the robber so he can get on with his work. . . . Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.”