Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Steinwas an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 February 1874
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Gertrude Stein quotes about
Any time is the time to make a poem.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
I am I because my little dog knows me.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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.