Gertrude Stein Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

  Gertrude Stein

  Nice, Book, Writing

• There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

  Gertrude Stein

  Language, Natural, Found

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.551, Northwestern University Press

• A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Emotional, Language, Paragraph

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.242, Univ of California Press

• If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

  Gertrude Stein

  Use, Way, Language

• When I said.
  A rose is a rose is a rose.
  And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what
  did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed
  a noun.

  Gertrude Stein

  Rose, Poetry, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.22, Vintage

• Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Color, Long

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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