Quote

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Healing
Listen

More quotes by Gertrude Stein

Image
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
Gertrude Stein
Image
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
Image
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein
Image
You attract what you need like a lover
Gertrude Stein
Image
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Image
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
Image
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
Image
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
Image
This joy you feel is life.
Gertrude Stein
Image
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude Stein
Image
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
Gertrude Stein
Image
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Gertrude Stein
Image
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Image
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein